
Anna Lundberg
Prefekt

Technologies of Displacement and Children’s Right to Asylum in Sweden
Författare
Summary, in English
Through an analysis of 100 asylum decisions and 10 interviews with 20 asylum officers at the Swedish Migration Agency this article reveals two intricate processes through which children’s rights are displaced in the Swedish asylum process; by overlooking children’s individual claims for asylum through a circle of neglect, and negating children’s best interests. The article demonstrates how the balancing act between migration control on one hand and children’s rights on the other hand plays out in the asylum process, which results in a double displacement; the children are not adult enough to be addressed as asylum seekers and not children enough to deserve qualification as bearer of children’s rights. An in-depth analysis of everyday practices at institutions applying children’s rights is essential both to understand the reproduction of discrepancies between rights on paper and rights in practice, and to explore the potential of rights to disrupt oppressive vehicles of power.
Publiceringsår
2017
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
189-208
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Human Rights Review
Volym
18
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Law and Society
- International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Nyckelord
- CRC
- Children’s rights
- Asylum
- Negation
- Migration control
- Deportation regime
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1524-8879