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- Andersson, Hans E.
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International conventions and the regulation of migration : The convention on the rights of the child and Sweden
- 2012
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Children's Rights. - 0927-5568 .- 1571-8182. ; 20:1, s. 122-140
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is a contested issue to what extent international conventions on human rights actually constrain states. While earlier shown that courts may invoke international conventions, this article investigates to what extent legislators, when it comes to migration, are similarly restrained. In a context where the trend is that states limit immigration and curb asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants' social rights, the answer would seem to be that states are obviously unhampered. However, in Sweden there have been changes to the Swedish Aliens Act and to the entitlement to health care which have rather safeguarded asylum seeking and undocumented children's situation. This article discusses the role that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has played in this development and considers whether this has restrained Sweden's ability to act.
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- Quennerstedt, Ann, 1967-
(författare)
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Children, but not really humans? : Critical reflections on the hampering effect of the "3 p's"
- 2010
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Children's Rights. - 0927-5568 .- 1571-8182. ; 18:4, s. 619-635
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, the widespread use of the “3 p’s”, provision, protection and participation, to categorise children’s rights is critically examined. This conceptualisation is argued to have hampering effects on research in children’s rights, in that it frames the research in a problematic way and hinders the possibilities of attaining theoretically driven analyses. In the first part of the paper, the emergence and use of the 3 p’s is traced and discussed. Thereafter, an alternative language for constructing and analysing children’s rights is proposed, namely the vocabulary used for general human rights: civil, political and social rights. When children’s rights are placed within the development of human rights and conceptualised accordingly, a different understanding of the content of children’s rights surfaces. The theoretical contextualisation that is then added is suggested as a way of approaching contradictions and conflicts surrounding children’s rights issues with more theoretical depth and nuances.
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- Quennerstedt, Ann, 1967-
(författare)
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Children's rights research moving into the future : challenges on the way forward
- 2013
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Children's Rights. - : Brill. - 0927-5568 .- 1571-8182. ; 21:2, s. 233-247
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The expansion of the research into children’s rights during the last 20 years has constituted children’s rights research as an established and legitimate field of study. The time may now be ripe to reflect on the work undertaken so far and to consider the future of children’s rights research. In recent years, self-critical voices have surfaced within the research field, pointing out possible areas of concern. The ambition of this paper is to contribute to such deliberations within children’s rights research. In the paper, comments and concerns that have been put forward are brought together and developed further, leading to the suggestion that research into children’s rights issues will need to address three major challenges on the way forward: advancing critique, increasing theorisation and contextualising research.
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- Quennerstedt, Ann, 1967-
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The construction of children's rights in education : a research synthesis
- 2011
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Children's Rights. - : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. - 0927-5568 .- 1571-8182. ; 19:4, s. 661-678
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a research synthesis that aims to clarify and discuss how children’s rights in education are constructed in research. A basic assumption is accordingly that research is an important participant in the process in which principal meanings and essential aspects of children’s rights take shape. In the synthesis, 35 research publications, published between1997-2008, have been selected and analysed. The main findings show that the research interest centres on four main themes: 1) Human rights orientation, 2) Education difficult to change, 3) Children’s participation rights, and 4) Children’s rights – parents’ rights. In research, essential aspects of education are highlighted as matters of children’s rights and the research construction give rise to some important insights that call for further research on children’s rights in education.
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