Children's Rights and Refugee Law: Conceptualising Children within the Refugee Convention (Law and Migration)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 113805271X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Her research interests include refugee and immigration law and policy and children’s rights. Samantha completed her PhD in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. She has published on these and related areas. Samantha Arnold is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow within the Irish National Contact Point of the European Migration Network based in the Economic and Social Research Institute
This book explores the possibility of a children’s rights approach to the interpretation of the Refugee Convention and within that what such an approach might look like.In order to construct a children’s rights approach, the conceptualisations of children outside the legal discipline, within international children’s rights law and then within refugee law and refugee discourse, are analysed. Children make up half of the world’s refugees and over 40 per cent of the world’s asylum seekers. However, children are largely invisible in historical and contemporary refugee law. Furthermore, there has been very limited interaction between the burgeoning children’s rights framework, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Refugee Convention). The approach taken is socio-legal and comparative in nature and the suitability of the Refugee Convention as a framework for the interpretation of child claims is examined. The book analyses to what extent the
Her research interests include refugee and immigration law and policy and children’s rights. She has published on these and related areas. Samantha completed her PhD in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. . About the AuthorSamantha Arnold is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow within the Irish National Contact Point of the European Migration Network based in the Economic and Social Research Institute