Ruth Lister
Loughborough University, UK

Ruth Lister is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. She would like to thank the referees — Alexandra
Dobrowolsky and Guy Mundlak — together with Sharon Bessell and the student editorial board for their very helpful comments on an earlier draft; and also participants in the Why Citizenship? workshop, University of Toronto, May 26-28, 2006, for their feedback on the initial paper. A much shorter version of this article will be published in CHILDREN ANDCITIZENSHIP (Samantha Clutton et al. eds.,
forthcoming 2007).