ABSTRACT
This chapter synthesizes and recapitulates the key arguments in the book. The main argument in the book is that as a cartography, children's lived experience of poverty and vulnerability can be understood from the context of the structural forces of economic and social-relational vulnerability at home. It is also the experience of difficult schooling within a context where schooling is seen as a way out of poverty, but one that does not always fulfil this promise of a better future. It is also an experience of being a child receiving state and other social protection support, where the children encounter various representations of their needs and rights. However, children and their caregivers claim and reposition their rights and identity in these diverse spaces. These actions, in turn, become part of the cartographies of children's lived experience of poverty and vulnerability. Presenting children's experience as fluid, complex and incomplete is not just a social experiment. The chapter, therefore, provides signposts for policy, practice, research, childhood and poverty studies, and activism for child rights and well-being.
