Introduction

This chapter introduces the book Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability In Kenya. The chapter presents the key arguments in the book, pointing to the motivations for research that underpins its content. The chapter makes a case for the need for locally embedded notions of child poverty and vulnerability and readings that are complex and non-linear. The chapter introduces the key cartographical question covered in the book; how is it both to be and to be constructed as a poor and vulnerable child?