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Boampong, Michael (2013). World Youth Report: Youth and Migration. United Nations, New York.

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Boampong, Michael (2018). [Book review] Child and youth migration: mobility-in-migration in an era of globalization. Children's Geographies, 16(2) pp. 214–216.

Boampong, Michael (2015). Stocktake Report of Human Mobility and Migration-Related Initiatives by UNDP. United Nations Development Programme, New York.

Boampong, Michael (2014). Want job, will travel: five ways to help young immigrants find work. The Guardian, London.

Boampong, Michael (2021). [Book review] Marie Louise Seeberg and Elżbieta M Goździak, Contested Childhoods: Growing Up in Migrancy, Migration, Governance, Identities. Global Studies of Childhood, 11(1) pp. 115–117.

Boampong, Michael (2021). Overview of Youth Development in Ghana. Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK.

Boampong, Michael (2021). ‘Everywhere feels like home’: transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future. In: Horton, John; Pimlott-Wilson, Helena and Hall, Sarah Marie eds. Growing Up and Getting By: International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 115–135.

Boampong, Michael (2019). Transnational practices and children’s local lives in times of economic crisis. In: Von Benzon, Nadia and Wilkinson, Catherine eds. Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth : Global Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 198–212.

Boampong, Michael (2019). Ghana. In: Wells, Karen ed. Teen Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 163–173.

Choak, Clare (2022). Alternative post-16 transitions: examining the career pathways of young women 'on road'. Journal of Youth Studies, 25(3) pp. 290–306.

Choak, Clare (2021). Hegemonic Masculinity and “Badness”: How Young Women Bargain with Patriarchy “On Road". Boyhood Studies, 14(1) pp. 63–74.

Choak, Clare (2020). British Criminological Amnesia: Making the Case for a Black and Postcolonial Feminist Criminology. Decolonization of Criminology and Justice, 2(1) pp. 37–58.

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Ellis, Adam and Gunter, Anthony (2023). Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research. In: Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Dr Anthony eds. Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 57–72.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2019). Becoming a Home-Educator in a Networked World: Towards the Democratisation of Education Alternatives? Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives, 8(1) pp. 27–57.

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Fensham-Smith, Amber (2014). Gypsy and Traveller Education: Engaging Gypsy and Traveller Families - A Research Report. Welsh Government Social Research, Welsh Government.

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Fensham-Smith, Amber (2020). Should we really call this home schooling? Reflections from the research field. BERA.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2020). What are the issues in rethinking fieldwork-practically, theoretically, ethically? The Open University.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2020). Towards co-operative working in alternative education. The Freedom to Learn Project, Phoenix Education Trust.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2021). Partnership building and representing the voices of electively home educated children and young people in policymaking [Written Evidence HED0917]. Department of Education, Select Commitee Home Education Inquiry, United Kingdom.

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Fensham-Smith, Amber (2021). Alternative Education: The Rise in Elective Home Education: Issues Related to Recognition, Collaboration and Successful Partnerships. In: Wearmouth, Janice and Lindley, Karen eds. Bringing the Curriculum to Life: Engaging Learners in the English Education System. London: Open University Press, McGraw Hill, pp. 43–62.

Gunter, Anthony (2017). Race, Gangs and Youth Violence: Policy, Prevention and Policing. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Gunter, Anthony (2008). Growing up bad: Black youth, ‘road’ culture and badness in an East London neighbourhood. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 4(3) pp. 349–366.

Gunter, Anthony (2010). Growing Up Bad?: Black Youth, 'road' Culture and Badness in an East London Neighbourhood. London, UK: Tufnell Press.

Gunter, Anthony (2003). The Trouble with Black (Male) Youth. Criminal Justice Matters, 54(1) pp. 22–23.

Gunter, Anthony (2016). From bad to worse? Marginalised youth and ‘Road life’ (mis)representations and realities. In: Blackman, Shane and Kempson, Michelle eds. The Subcultural Imagination: Theory, Research and Reflexivity in Youth Cultures. Youth, Young Adulthood and Society. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 46–62.

Gunter, Anthony (2017). Youth Transitions and Legacies in an East London Olympic Host Borough. In: Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul eds. London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 287–309.

Gunter, Anthony (2023). The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers”. In: Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Anthony eds. Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 27–41.

Gunter, Anthony (2023). Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities. In: Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Anthony eds. Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 167–184.

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Gunter, Anthony (2015). ‘Keeping it real’: the experiences of black youth beyond criminal (in)justice statistics. Criminal Justice Matters, 101(1) pp. 14–17.

Gunter, Anthony and Holford, Naomi (2023). Transitions to Adulthood. In: Cooper, Victoria and Tatlow-Golden, Mimi eds. An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 218–232.

Gunter, Anthony and Watt, Paul (2009). Grafting, going to college and working on road: youth transitions and cultures in an East London neighbourhood. Journal of Youth Studies, 12(5) pp. 515–529.

Joseph, Ian and Gunter, Anthony (2011). What’s a Gang and What’s Race Got to Do With It? Runnymede Trust.

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Singh, Jaspal (2022). Transcultural decoloniality, global hip hop and reflexive narrative analysis. In: Solange, Maria Barros and Resende, Viviane eds. Coloniality in Discourse: A Radical Critique. London: Routledge, pp. 136–154.

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Wearmouth, Janice and Fensham-Smith, Amber (2021). Introduction. In: Wearmouth, Janice and Lindley, Karen eds. Bringing the Curriculum to Life: Engaging Learners in the English Education System. London: Open University Press McGraw Hill, pp. 1–9.