| Tittel: | Vulnerability and Discrimination: The State’s Responsibility towards Asylum-Seeking Children’s Right to Health and Care to Prevent Discrimination against Children |
| Ansvar: | Fredrikke Fjellberg Moldenæs |
| Forfatter: | Moldenæs, Fredrikke Fjellberg  |
| Materialtype: | Bokkapittel |
| Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2025 |
| Omfang: | S. 154–180 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9788215069517 |
| Emneord: | Barn / Barnerett / Barnevern / Barns rettigheter / Vitenskapelig publikasjon |
| Note: | Open access - Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) |
| Innhold: | Abstract
Reports show that many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children above 15 years of age struggle and are vulnerable. This chapter investigates whether caregiving for these children in Norway constitutes discrimination against them. Further, I ask whether the understanding of children’s unique vulnerability is reflected in the legislation concerning unaccompanied asylum-seeking children 15–18 years of age – or whether the state is rather creating a vulnerable situation for them.1
Keywords: unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, health, discrimination, caregiving, vulnerability, sårbarhet |
| Del av verk: | Perspectives on children, rights, and vulnerability |
| Forlagets omtale: |
This volume explores and challenges the concept of vulnerability in the way it is applied and discussed in relation to children from a northwestern European perspective. While the concept of vulnerability has been significantly explored in relation to childhood and children's rights, this volume adds a fresh lens by adding a predominantly legal perspective. The predominantly legal perspectives and the way many of the authors are taking their departure point from the work of Martha Fineman bring a new third dimension to the discussion of the concept of vulnerability. This interrogation of the concept of vulnerability is deployed in discussions that cover wide ranging issues relating to the environment, immigration, healthcare, education and climate change. Health is a focus of several chapters. While some of the chapters challenge the concept of vulnerability, others mainly work from more dominant interpretations of child vulnerability and some also bring in the perspective of the multidisciplinary field of childhood studies. The chapters represent a mixture of theoretical and empirical pieces. In the last chapter, some of the key threads running through the whole volume are brought together with some concluding reflections. The theoretical concepts and the questions raised by many of the chapters included in this volume have the potential to contribute to further thinking in this area.
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