Devine, DympnaDympnaDevineCockburn, TomTomCockburn2019-04-092019-04-092018 the A2018-03-04Childhoodhttp://hdl.handle.net/10197/9863This article argues that children's social status and positioning as children needs to be foregrounded in discussions of social citizenship and the re/development of the welfare state against a backdrop of neo-liberal economic and social reform. Set within a theoretical model that highlights the circular and de-centred exercise of power across fields of action, the subject of children's citizenship, understood as a 'citizenship habitus' is explored, taking the exemplar of education and migrant children's positioning in schools. enDevine, D., Cockburn, T., Theorizing children's social citizenship: New welfare states and intergenerational justice, Childhood 25(2), pp. 142–157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568218759787Children's citizenshipEducationInter-generationalMigrant childrenWelfareJournal Article25214215710.1177/09075682187597872018-03-06https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/