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Treated Like a Child
Age Discrimination and Childrenâs Rights
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One of the core principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is non-discrimination. However, little attention has been given to how this principle can protect children from discrimination because of age and childhood.
This anthology brings together experts from childrenâs rights studies to explore both overall issues related to discrimination against children, as well as non-legitimate differential treatment in specific contexts â including climate crisis, child labour, migration, healthcare, and child protection. Attention is drawn to the potential to advance childrenâs rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.
This anthology brings together experts from childrenâs rights studies to explore both overall issues related to discrimination against children, as well as non-legitimate differential treatment in specific contexts â including climate crisis, child labour, migration, healthcare, and child protection. Attention is drawn to the potential to advance childrenâs rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.
Aoife Daly, Professor of Law, University College Cork. She is author of Children, Autonomy and the Courts (Brill | Nijhoff, 2018) and has a European Research Council grant to research child/youth climate justice around the world.
Pernilla Leviner, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child at Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within and across the fields of public and family law and focus primarily on child protection and childrenâs rights.
Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University and Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Her research encompasses the fields of migration law, childrenâs human rights, and the relationship between national and international law.
Pernilla Leviner, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child at Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within and across the fields of public and family law and focus primarily on child protection and childrenâs rights.
Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University and Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Her research encompasses the fields of migration law, childrenâs human rights, and the relationship between national and international law.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âAoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?
âAoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
3 âHandle with Careâ: Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame
âMichael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole
4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
âClaire Breen
5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination
âJohn Wall
6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities
âLucia Rabello de Castro
7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Childrenâs Rights in the Climate Crisis
âAoife Daly
8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?
âManfred Liebel
9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration
âRebecca Thorburn Stern
10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery
âPriscilla Alderson
11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden
âPernilla Leviner
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âAoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?
âAoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
3 âHandle with Careâ: Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame
âMichael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole
4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
âClaire Breen
5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination
âJohn Wall
6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities
âLucia Rabello de Castro
7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Childrenâs Rights in the Climate Crisis
âAoife Daly
8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?
âManfred Liebel
9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration
âRebecca Thorburn Stern
10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery
âPriscilla Alderson
11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden
âPernilla Leviner
Index
With its interdisciplinary approach, the anthology is of value for students and researchers in childrenâs rights and childhood studies, but also discrimination and human rights law. It is also of interest for practitioners working with childrenâs rights in many fields.