Introduction: Lived Citizenship, rights and participation in contemporary Europe / Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn -- Children's citizenship in globalised societies / Hanne Warming -- Children's participation: definitions, narratives and disputes /Michael Wyness -- Recognition and capability: a new way to understand how children can achieve their rights? / Nigel Thomas and Daniel Stoecklin -- Theorising Children's Bodies. A critical review of relational understandings in Childhood Studies / Florian Eßer -- Unexpected allies. Expanding the theoretical toolbox of the children's rights sociologist / Michele Poretti -- Beyond the modern "norm" of childhood: children at the margins as a challenge for the Sociology of Childhood / Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Rita de Cássia Marchi and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan -- Participation as learning for change in everyday spaces: Enhancing meaning and effectiveness using action research / Barry Percy-Smith -- The child, the pupil, the citizen. Outlines and perspectives of a critical theory of citizenship education / Federico Farini -- Heteropolitical pedagogies. citizenship and childhood. Commoning education in contemporary Greece / Yannis Pechtelidis -- The right to be transnational. Narratives and positionings of children with a migration background in Italy / Sara Amadasi and Vittorio Iervese -- Conclusions: Lived Childhoods / Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.