The Rights of the Child

Rebecca Adami, PhD 2014 Stockholm University, is Associate Professor at the Department of Education, SU. Together with K. Dineen, she published the article “Discourses of Childism: How COVID-19 Has Unveiled Prejudice, Discrimination and Social Injustice against Children in the Everyday” (The International Journal of Children’s Rights, Vol 29, Issue 2, pp.353-370, Brill/Nijhoff). Anna Kaldal, PhD 2010 Stockholm University, is Professor at the Department of Law at that university. She published ”Barnets bästa i vårdnadstvister – särskilt principen om barnets bästa och barnets rätt att komma till tals, in Åhman, Leviner & Zillén (ed) Barnkonventionen i praktiken Rättsliga utmaningar och möjligheter” (Norstedts juridik, 2020). Margareta Aspán, PhD in Education, 2009, is Senior lecturer at the Department of child and youth studies, Stockholm university, since 2014. She published "Janusz Korczak och Ellen Key – tankar om barnet är tankar om människan. S. & R- M. Hartman (red.) Fostran med kärlek och respekt, Janusz Korszaks pedagogik, 50 år i Sverige” (Svenska Korczaksällskapets skriftserie, nr 5, 2022).

Preface – Contrasting Perspectives on Child Rights  

Rebecca Adami



Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors


Introduction

  Children’s Rights from an International Perspective

  Laura Lundy



  A Children’s Rights Dilemma – Paternalism versus Autonomy

  Noam Peleg



Part 1

Legal Challenges Regarding the Rights of the Child

1 Children’s Right to Have Rights – on the Importance of Statutory Rights for Swedish Children Living outside the Country

  Johanna Schiratzki



  A Response to Johanna Schiratzki

  Sandra Karlsson



2 Child Rights without Substance? – Swedish Public Welfare and the Invisibility of Children in Economic Support Cases

  Pernilla Leviner and Tim Holappa



  A Response to Pernilla Leviner and Tim Holappa

  Lars Lindblom



3 Children’s Participation in Legal Proceedings – Conditioned by Adult Views of Children’s Capacity and Credibility?

  Anna Kaldal



  A Response to Anna Kaldal

  Linde Lindkvist



4 Societal Unease and the Right to Non-discrimination for Youths with Foreign Background Who Are in Conflict with the Law

  Katrin Lainpelto



  A Response to Katrin Lainpelto

  Rebecca Adami



5 Children’s Right to Health(Care) – in Light of Medical Advancements and Developments in Paediatric Care

  Kavot Zillén



  A Response to Kavot Zillén

  Margareta Aspán



Part 2

Conceptualizing the Rights of the Child Political, Ethical, and Moral Dimensions

6 Childism – on Adult Resistance to Children’s Rights

  Rebecca Adami



  A Response to Rebecca Adami

  Katrin Lainpelto



7 Five Problems with Children’s Participation Rights

  Linde Lindkvist



  A Response to Linde Lindkvist

  Anna Kaldal



8 Distributive Justice for Children

  Lars Lindblom



  A Response to Lars Lindblom

  Pernilla Leviner and Tim Holappa



9 Article 31 – the Forgotten Right to Cultural Life and the Arts

  Margareta Aspán



  A Response to Margareta Aspán

  Kavot Zillén



10 Ethnography of Lived Rights – Methodological and Ethical Considerations when Researching Rights with Children

  Sandra Karlsson



  A Response to Sandra Karlsson

  Johanna Schiratzki



Index