Overview
- Brings together perspectives from child rights policy chairs across the world on a global issue
- Discusses all the milestone documents which defend migrant children rights
- Provides both clinical and policy frameworks to understand and address the issue
Part of the book series: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice (CSRP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume explores the various challenges faced by migrant unaccompanied children, using a clinical sociological approach and a global perspective. It applies a human rights and comparative framework to examine the reception of unaccompanied children in European, North American, South American, Asian and African countries. Some of the important issues the volume discusses are: access of displaced unaccompanied children to justice across borders and juridical contexts; voluntary guardianship for unaccompanied children; the diverse but complementary needs of unaccompanied children in care, which if left unaddressed can have serious implications on their social integration in the host societies; and the detention of migrant children as analyzed against the most recent European and international human rights law standards. This is a one-of-a-kind volume bringing together perspectives from child rights policy chairs across the world on a global issue. The contributions reflect the authors’ diverse cultural contexts and academic and professional backgrounds, and hence, this volume synthesizes theory with practice through rich firsthand experiences, along with theoretical discussions. It is addressed not only to academics and professionals working on and with migrant children, but also to a wider, discerning public interested in a better understanding of the rights of unaccompanied children.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sofia Leitão, Ph.D., is a Sociologist and the Director of the Research & Development Division at “Hope For Children” CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Child) Policy Center. Over the last decade she has directed the implementation of numerous programmes in the field of the Rights of the Child co-funded by the Rights, Equality & Citizenship programme of the European Commission. She is the author of a book on media discourses and childhood constructions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors
Book Subtitle: Perspectives and Case Studies on Migrant Children
Editors: Yvonne Vissing, Sofia Leitão
Series Title: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75594-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75593-5Published: 23 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75596-6Published: 24 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75594-2Published: 22 July 2021
Series ISSN: 1566-7847
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Sociology, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights and Crime