ABSTRACT
Considering the calls for more child-specific policies and infrastructures of care at the U.S.-Mexico border, the chapter explores how the contemporary novel of forced migration dramatizes, disrupts, and reshuffles the traditional geographies of childhood as well the representations and archives of the child-refugee. What the chapter thus argues is, that this genre—and Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) in particular—use the figure of the displaced child to unearth and reconnect different sites of forced migration in the Americas, thus expanding the normative images, vocabularies, and geographies of both childhood and refugeeness. Focusing, moreover, on the narrativization of technologies in Luiselli´s novel, the chapter highlights the emergence of non-hegemonic technological priorities, imaginaries, and ethics as well as their role in remapping modern childhoods.
