Living rights, social justice, translations

Hanson, Karl; Nieuwenhuys, Olga

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139381796.002

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“…Children's access to play requires the provision of opportunities to play through accessible time and space (UNCRC, 2013). This study then also contributes to an anthropological understanding of the 'lived rights' (Hanson and Nieuwenhuys, 2016;Reynolds et al, 2006) of children in asylum centres, where access to play may be limited or denied (see also Seeberg et al, 2009;UNCRC, 2013). Nonetheless, it also displays how children themselves try to claim their right to play when that same right is being institutionally denied.…”

Section: The Children's Tactical Agency When Navigating Regulation Inmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘Do you know what we do when we want to play?’ Children’s hidden politics of resistance and struggle for play in a Swedish asylum centre

Karlsson

2018

Childhood

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This study explores how children navigate institutional regulation at an asylum centre and how their political acts of resistance are expressed through their struggle to access play. It shows that the children used tactical awareness to identify the displayed strategies of the institutional regulation, which was conditional for their development of tactical acts, through which they handled that regulation. The children's political acts of resistance and struggle for play, which were hidden to the institution, demonstrated how they claimed their right to play, although this right was still structurally denied. Consequently, their politics is a politics of impediment.

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Section: The Children's Tactical Agency When Navigating Regulation Inmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘Do you know what we do when we want to play?’ Children’s hidden politics of resistance and struggle for play in a Swedish asylum centre

Karlsson

2018

Childhood

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“…Situations vary over time as well as place: policies need to be adaptable to prepare children for changing forms and patterns of employment. General standards can usefully comprise a rough guide rather than rigid rules; some authors speak of living rights, which people can claim deriving from their social lives, and which are sensitive to their specific and changing situations (Hanson and Nieuwenhuijs, ).…”

Section: Ways Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy on Children's Work and Labour

Bourdillon

Carothers

2018

Children & Society

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Current international child labour policies emphasise removing children from work rather than improving their well‐being. Prohibited ‘child labour’ extends beyond work shown to be harmful, and work in poorer, majority‐world societies is particularly targeted. These policies ignore benefits that children can gain from work, and have been developed largely without the involvement of the children, families and communities most concerned, limiting chances of successful outcomes. This paper argues for alternative approaches, developed in collaboration with children and their communities, focussing on children's well‐being and development, and protecting children from harm and exploitation while allowing them to benefit from appropriate work.

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“…In recent years, a critical body of literature has reinterpreted the CRC in bridging the gap between local and global conceptions of childhood and more fully accommodating children's agency. Hanson and Nieuwenhuys () refer to human rights in terms of children's ‘living rights’, where children articulate their interests based on their immediate living circumstances as well as their future aspirations. Morrow and Pells () focus on working with rights as processes highlighting the inter‐dependent nature of agency.…”

Section: Discourse Of Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The paper critically examines this predominantly protectionist position. Drawing on an emerging body of critical literature, it goes beyond the protectionist imperatives of policy‐makers and generates possibilities for viewing children's military involvement in terms of their agency (Morrow and Pells, ; Hanson and Nieuwenhuys, ).…”

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Childhood, Human Rights and Adversity: The Case of Children and Military Conflict

Wyness

2016

Children & Society

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The Convention on the rights of the Child focuses global attention on those children living in adverse situations crystallising a global commitment to protecting children. Nevertheless, beyond these commitments to children, researchers have questioned whether the rights agenda captures the diversity of children's lives globally. Does the Convention connect with the lifeworlds of children playing formative roles? Drawing on critical research on children's rights, I address this question through analysing the roles that children play in military conflict. I explore a human rights framework, which highlights the agency of child soldiers focusing on their material, social and political capacities.

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Living rights, social justice, translations

Cited by 67 publications

References 39 publications

‘Do you know what we do when we want to play?’ Children’s hidden politics of resistance and struggle for play in a Swedish asylum centre

‘Do you know what we do when we want to play?’ Children’s hidden politics of resistance and struggle for play in a Swedish asylum centre

Policy on Children's Work and Labour

Childhood, Human Rights and Adversity: The Case of Children and Military Conflict

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