Eithne Nightingale introduces the reader to the World in the East End gallery at the V&A Museum of Childhood, the inspiration for her research. She outlines her approach to the interviews and the co-production of the films as well as her role as narrator, guiding the reader from Somalia to the Isle of Dogs and Syria to the Isle of Bute and weaving the present with the past. She brings out the key themes, stressing that it is the child migrants’ voices that drive this book, many of whom she knows as friends, ex-colleagues, fellow campaigners or local entrepreneurs.

“If I had a magic wand” - Final thoughts and insights:

Eithne reflects on the core themes that emerge from these stories and what they tell us about how welcoming we really are, as individuals and as a nation, to child migrants; whether and how this has changed over time. She draws on the responses from child migrants and those who know or care for them to the question “If you had a magic wand how would you improve child migrants’ lives?” for the film Child Migrants Welcome? She reflects on the present and future challenges including of the anti-immigration rhetoric, the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Rwanda scheme.

Watch responses of child migrants, and those who work with them, to the question, "If you had a magic wand how would you improve the lives of child migrants? "  from the film Child Migrants Welcome?