‘We beg you, let them stay!’: Right claims of asylum-seeking children as a socio-political practice

Children’s rights to asylum have emerged as an urgent political challenge. This article uses a number of cases discussed in Sweden’s largest morning paper to analyse claims of asylum-seeking children and how these claims challenge the normative limits of contemporary asylum, concerning what and who...

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Published inChildhood (Copenhagen, Denmark) Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 316 - 332
Main Author Josefsson, Jonathan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Asylum
Children
Children & youth
Childrens rights
children’s rights
citizenship
Claims
deportation
Human rights
Law
Mainstreaming
Paradigms
Political asylum
right claims
Rights
socio-political practice
Sociopolitical factors
Sweden
Asylum
citizenship
right claims
socio-political practice
deportation
mainstreaming
children’s rights
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Summary:Children’s rights to asylum have emerged as an urgent political challenge. This article uses a number of cases discussed in Sweden’s largest morning paper to analyse claims of asylum-seeking children and how these claims challenge the normative limits of contemporary asylum, concerning what and who ought to be recognized by law. Even though the universality of the child constitutes a running theme, the arguments and the conception of children underpinning the claims are diverse. The article suggests that the claiming of rights as a socio-political practice could be a vital analytical approach to studying children’s rights and offers a much needed alternative to the dominant mainstreaming paradigm.
ISSN:0907-5682
1461-7013
1461-7013
DOI:10.1177/0907568216674785