Starkweather, S.GEOGRAPHY2014-04-022014-04-022009Starkweather, S. (2009). My children, myself: Speaking for young citizens abroad. Children's Geographies 7 (1) : 99-103. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1080/1473328080257609314733285https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/49778Early activism by groups representing American citizens living abroad was motivated by parents' concerns about the citizenship status of children born outside the United States. In this essay I discuss a 1971-2 letterwriting campaign which involved American parents speaking on behalf of the rights of their minor children in a way that facilitated a simultaneous looking forward into the child's future, and looking backward to the parent's origins. Thus parents' representations of the child-citizen positioned them as agents of both nostalgia and futurity within the American family abroad. © 2009 Taylor & Francis.Americans abroadChildrenCitizenshipParentsUnited statesArticle000284549300008