Routledge International Handbook of Children’s Rights Studies

Author:   Wouter Vandenhole (University of Antwerp, Belgium) ,  Ellen Desmet (University of Antwerp and Ghent University, Belgium) ,  Didier Reynaert (University College Ghent, Belgium) ,  Sara Lembrechts (Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre (KeKi), Belgium)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138023703


Pages:   452
Publication Date:   27 March 2015
Format:   Hardback
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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 in the theory and practice of children’s rights. The volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to children’s rights, as well as key thematic issues in children’s rights at the intersection of global and local concerns. The main approaches and topics within the volume are: • Law, social work, and the sociology of childhood and anthropology • Geography, childhood studies, gender studies and citizenship studies • Participation, education and health • Juvenile justice and alternative care • Violence against children and female genital mutilation • Child labour, working children and child poverty • Migration, indigenous children and resource exploitation The specially commissioned chapters have been written by renowned scholars and researchers and come together to provide a critical and invaluable guide to the challenges and dilemmas currently facing children’s rights.

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Author:   Wouter Vandenhole (University of Antwerp, Belgium) ,  Ellen Desmet (University of Antwerp and Ghent University, Belgium) ,  Didier Reynaert (University College Ghent, Belgium) ,  Sara Lembrechts (Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre (KeKi), Belgium)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9781138023703


ISBN 10:   1138023701
Pages:   452
Publication Date:   27 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Introduction: A critical approach to children’s rights, Didier Reynaert, Ellen Desmet, Sara Lembrechts and Wouter Vandenhole Part 1. Disciplinary perspectives 2. Children’s rights from a legal perspective: Children’s rights law, Wouter Vandenhole 3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Reflections from a historical, social policy and educational perspective, Eugeen Verhellen 4. Children’s rights and childhood studies: From living apart together to a happy marriage, Bruno Vanobbergen 5. Children’s rights and the sociology of childhood, Berry Mayall 6. Children’s rights from a social work perspective: Towards a lifeworld orientation, Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose 7. Children’s rights from an anthropological perspective: Critiques, resistances and powers, Geraldine André 8. Children’s rights from a critical geographic perspective, Stuart Aitken 9. Children’s rights and gender studies: Gender, intersectionality and the ethics of care, Katrien De Graeve 10. Children’s rights and citizenship studies: Re-theorising child citizenship through transdisciplinarity from the local to the global, Richard Mitchell Part 2. Selected themes at the intersection of the global and the local 11. Children and young people’s participation, Kay Tisdall 12. Education and children’s rights, Ann Quennerstedt 13. Health and children’s rights, Ursulla Kilkelly 14. Juvenile justice from a children’s rights perspective, Ton Liefaard 15. The human rights of children in the context of formal alternative care, Nigel Cantwell 16. Violence against children, Gertrud Lenzer 17. Female genital mutilation in Europe from a children’s rights perspective, Els Leye and Annemarie Middelburg 18. Child labour, working children and children’s rights, Karl Hanson, Diana Volonakis and Mohammed Al-Rozzi 19. The human rights of children in the context of international migration, Pablo Ceriani Cernadas 20. Child poverty in the context of global social development, Francine Mestrum 21. Indigenous children’s rights: Opportunities in appropriation and transformation, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen 22. Natural resource exploitation and children’s rights, Ellen Desmet and José Aylwin 23. Conclusions: Towards a field of critical children’s rights studies, Ellen Desmet, Sara Lembrechts, Didier Reynaert and Wouter Vandenhole.

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Wouter Vandenhole holds the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights – a joint venture of the University of Antwerp and UNICEF Belgium – at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is the spokesperson of the Law and Development Research Group and chairs the European Research Networking Programme GLOTHRO. He has published widely on economic, social and cultural rights, children’s rights and transnational human rights obligations and is a founding member of the Flemish Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre and co-convener of the international interdisciplinary course on children’s rights. Ellen Desmet is a post-doctoral fellow at the Law and Development Research Group of the University of Antwerp and the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University (Belgium). Before, she was a research and policy staff member at the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre, and taught anthropology of law at the University of Leuven. Didier Reynaert is a lecturer in social work at the Faculty of Education Health and Social work of the University College Ghent, he is involved in several research projects in the field of child and youth policy and children’s rights. He is member of the board of the Flemish Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre. Previously, he worked for the Flemish Children’s Rights Coalition, the Child Legal Centre and as a civil servant at the Ministry of the Flemish Community on youth protection. Sara Lembrechts is fulltime staff member at the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre (KeKi), where she is responsible for the collection and dissemination of children’s rights research, as well as for policy advice to the Flemish government.

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