Profile
My work is broadly interested in young people’s migration experiences and how they impact on their everyday lives, particularly transitions to adulthood. My work mostly falls along two strands: i) a focus a child language brokers, who are children and young people who translate and interpret for family members following migration and ii) a focus on the care of separated child migrants as the navigate the asylum-welfare nexus.
Publications
Rosen, R., Chase, E., Crafter, S., Glockner, V., & Mitra, S. (2022). Crisis for whom? Critical global perspectives on childhood, care, and migration. UCL Press.
Crafter, S., & Iqbal, H. (2022). Child language brokering as a family care practice: Reframing the ‘parentified child’ debate. Children & Society, 36, 400-414.
Crafter, S., Rosen, R & Meetoo, V. (2021) Precarious care and (dis)connections: Adults working with separated child migrants in England and their understandings of care. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 10(2), 92-103.
Crafter, S. & Iqbal, H. (2020). Drawing on the notion of the contact zone to explore the dialogical positionalities in ‘non-normative’ childhoods: How children who language broker manage conflict. Review of General Psychology, 24(1), 31-42.
