The importance of this volume is that it brings into the community of students and scholars concerned about residential care individuals whose voices are not very prevalent in OECD, and especially English-language discussions of the sector. We cannot deny that in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland and Ireland, for example, the voices readily heard and engaged in residential care are those of relatively few individuals who are well-connected in academic and professional communities (and usually English). In this volume, we are introduced to scholars and professionals who are situated quite differently, who have not had the kind of easy and usually funded access to international communities of research and scholarship, and who add a richness and a degree of diversity in terms of perspectives to the discussions that is priceless.