The Right to Be Transnational: Narratives and Positionings of Children with a Migration Background in Italy

This chapter presents a social system and an interactional theoretical approach to explore how theorising children in sociology has moved beyond mere interest in children’s `voice’ to one where children practice agency and contribute to the structuring of social systems.
The article explores how children with migrant background play with narratives of transnational mobility, claiming a sort of transnational citizenship.
Reflecting on how children's citizenship and rights relate, and how are affected by transnational mobility, allows to focus on children's active participation in social processes.
Through Positioning theory and interaction analysis applied to video-recorded extracts of workshops, we aim to explore the resources children activate in the interaction to deal with their travelling experiences and to construct and negotiate their identities inside the group in an institutional setting.