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Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies

Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies

Author: Wouter Vandenhole; Ellen Desmet; Didier Reynaert; Sara Lembrechts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138084490

Published In: May 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781138023703

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In the years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children’s rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies. This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people engaged in the theory and practice of children’s rights.

The volume consists of two parts with the first providing an insight into interdisciplinary approaches to children’s rights, with contributions from history, childhood studies, sociology, social work and educational sciences, law, anthropology, and gender studies. The second part considers key issues in children’s rights situating them at the intersection of the global and the local. This combination of disciplinary approaches and thematic analysis allows the reader to gain a deep understanding of children’s rights.

The handbook takes a critical approach to the topic, questioning and analysing assumptions underlying children’s rights practices. The specially commissioned chapters have been written by renowned scholars and researchers working in the field and come together to provide an invaluable guide to the challenges and dilemmas currently facing children’s rights.

1. Introduction: a Critical Approach to Children’s Rights, Wouter Vandenhole, Ellen Desmet, Didier Reynaert and Sara Lembrechts

Part 1. Disciplinary perspectives

2. A historical introduction to the CRC, Eugeen Verhellen

3. A childhood studies perspective, Bruno Vanobbergen

4. A sociological perspective, Berry Mayall

5. Children’s rights and social work: different traditions and understandings, Didier Reynaert & Rudi Roose

6. A legal perspective: children’s rights law, Wouter Vandenhole

7. An anthropological perspective, Geraldine André

8. A gender perspective, Katrien De Graeve

9. A geographical perspective, Stuart Aitkin

10. Conclusions Part I: towards an interdisciplinary understanding of children’s rights, Didier Reynaert, Sara Lembrechts, Ellen Desmet, Wouter Vandenhole

Part 2. Selected themes at the intersection of the global and the local

11. Children’s rights and armed conflict, Benyam Dawit Mezmur

12. The human rights of children in the context of migration, Pablo Ceriani Cernadas

13. Children and global poverty: an anti-globalist perspective, Francine Mestrum

14. Children’s rights and natural resource exploitation, José Aylwin & Ellen Desmet

15. Children’s rights, child labour and working children, Karl Hanson

16. Female Genital Mutilation, Els Leye and Annemarie Middelburg

17. Juvenile justice, Ton Liefaard

18. Education, Anne Quennerstedt

19. Child participation, Kay Tisdall

20. Child citizenship, Richard Mitchell

21. The rights of children in alternative care, Nigel Cantwell