Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies (Routledge International Handbooks)

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 exploitationThe 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. "In the years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) childrens 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 childrens rights. The volume consists of two parts with the first providing an insight into interdisciplinary approaches to childrens 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 childrens 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 childrens rights. The handbook takes a critical approach to the topic, questioning and analysing assumptions underlying childrens 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 childrens rights"--. "Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) childrens 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 childrens rights. The volume to childrens rights, as well as key thematic issues in childrens rights at the intersection of global and local concerns. The main approaches and topics within the volume are: Law, social work, 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 childrens rights." Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors Preface 1 Introduction: A critical approach to children’s rights Part I Disciplinary perspectives 2 Children’s rights from a legal perspective: Children’s rights law 3 The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Reflections from a historical, social policy and educational perspective 4 Children’s rights and childhood studies: From living apart together towards a happy marriage 5 The sociology of childhood and children’s rights 6 Children’s rights from a social work perspective: Towards a lifeworld orientation 7 Anthropologists, ethnographers and children’s rights: Critiques, resistance and powers 8 Children’s rights: A critical geographic perspective 9 Children’s rights from a gender studies perspective: Gender, intersectionality and the ethics of care 10 Children’s rights and citizenship studies: Re-theorising child citizenship through transdisciplinarity from the local to the global Part II Selected themes at the intersection of the global and the local 11 Children and young people’s participation: A critical consideration of Article 12 12 Education and children’s rights 13 Health and children’s rights 14 Juvenile justice from an international children’s rights perspective 15 The human rights of children in the context of formal alternative care 16 Violence against children 17 Female genital mutilation in Europe from a children’s rights perspective 18 Child labour, working children and children’s rights 19 The human rights of children in the context of international migration 20 Child poverty in the context of global social development 21 Indigenous children’s rights: Opportunities in appropriation and transformation 22 Natural resource exploitation and children’s rights 23 Conclusions: Towards a field of critical children’s rights studies Index "Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) childrens 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 childrens rights. The volume to childrens rights, as well as key thematic issues in childrens rights at the intersection of global and local concerns. The main approaches and topics within the volume are: Law, social work, 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 childrens rights"-- Provided by publisher