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Anna Lundberg.

Anna Lundberg

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Anna Lundberg.

Management of “the unaccompanied.” In search of a rights-based approach in the context of Swedish “crisis politics”

Author

  • Anna Lundberg

Summary, in English

This chapter focuses on recent policies adopted by the Swedish government in its management of unaccompanied children, and asks what the implications are for the concerned children’s rights. Focusing on conditions for rights, the chapter identifies three tensions which illustrate spaces for rights claiming: the boundary between who is a child and who is an adult, the division of responsibility between Swedish local governments and the central government, and the tension between residency and deportation. These tensions are essential to understanding the situation of unaccompanied children from a rights perspective in the Swedish context.

Publishing year

2018

Language

English

Pages

260-278

Publication/Series

Research Handbook on Child Migration :

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Law and Society
  • International Migration and Ethnic Relations

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781786433701