Global justice and childhood: introduction

The State and the world’s children

“….) The consequences are that northern privilege is inscribed in international policies for children, and children and families who fail to conform to those models are either stigmatized or rendered invisible' (Burman, 1996: 49) The divide between cosmopolitan/global and particular/local perspectives on children and childhood, as well as the relevance of this divide, continues to fuel many discussions in childhood studies literature (see for instance recently: De Castro, 2020;Drerup and Schweiger, 2019;Hanson et al, 2018;Wall, 2019). What seems less explored in these debates is the role played by nation-states and the solidarity between them.…”