Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age

Jacqueline Bhabha (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16910-1 (ISBN)

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Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and routinely threatened with deportation to their countries of origin? Why do so many young refugees of war-ravaged and failed states end up warehoused in camps, victimized by the sex trade, or enlisted as child soldiers? This book provides the first comprehensive account of the widespread but neglected global phenomenon of child migration, exploring the complex challenges facing children and adolescents who move to join their families, those who are moved to be exploited, and those who move simply to survive. Spanning several continents and drawing on the stories of young migrants, Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age provides a comprehensive account of the widespread and growing but neglected global phenomenon of child migration and child trafficking. It looks at the often-insurmountable obstacles we place in the paths of adolescents fleeing war, exploitation, or destitution; the contradictory elements in our approach to international adoption; and the limited support we give to young people brutalized as child soldiers.
Part history, part in-depth legal and political analysis, this powerful book challenges the prevailing wisdom that widespread protection failures are caused by our lack of awareness of the problems these children face, arguing instead that our societies have a deep-seated ambivalence to migrant children--one we need to address head-on. Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age offers a road map for doing just that, and makes a compelling and courageous case for an international ethics of children's human rights.

Jacqueline Bhabha is a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, director of research at Harvard's Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer at Harvard Law School.

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART I The Right to Respect for Family Life? Moving Children for Family 17 Chapter 1 Looking for Home: The Elusive Right to Family Life 19 Chapter 2 Staying Home: The Elusive Benefits of Child Citizenship 60 Chapter 3 Family Ambivalence: The Contested Terrain of Intercountry Adoption 96 PART II Youthful Commodities: Moving Children for Exploitation 135 Chapter 4 Targeting the Right Issue: Trafficked Children and the Human Rights Imperative 137 Chapter 5 Under the Gun: Moving Children for War 175 PART III Demanding a Future: Child Migration for Survival 201 Chapter 6 David and Goliath: Children's Unequal Battle for Refugee Protection 203 Chapter 7 Demanding Rights and a Future: Adolescents on the Move for a Better Life 238 Notes 283 Index 349

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
Zusatzinfo	7 halftones.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 229 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-16910-1 / 0691169101
ISBN-13	978-0-691-16910-1 / 9780691169101
Zustand	Neuware