Search for dissertations about: "child rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 swedish dissertations containing the words child rights.

  2. 1. The Negotiable Child : The ILO Child Labour Campaign 1919-1973

    Author : Marianne Dahlén; Rolf Nygren; Mats Kumlien; Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark; Per Nilsén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Legal history; child labour; childhood history; childhood studies; labour law; children s rights; children and work; minimum age; International Labour Organisation; international labour law; ILO minimum age campaign; ILO; Rättshistoria; LAW JURISPRUDENCE; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK; Rättshistoria; Legal History and Sociology of Law;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the Conventions and Recommendations to regulate the minimum age for admission to employment between the years 1919 and 1973 – the ILO minimum age campaign. The adoption process has been studied in its chronological and historical context. READ MORE

  4. 2. Child welfare and professionalization

    Author : Guðrún Kristinsdóttir; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child; child welfare; children s rights; contradictions; family; foster care; Iceland; local community; professionalization; social policy; social work; welfare state; Barnomsorg; Island; Ungdomsvård; välfärdspolitik;

    Abstract : This study deals with the qualities of professionalization of public child welfare. Its relationto general social policy is emphasized. The potentials of welfarism are explored as a part ofthe study of crisis of legitimacy and rationality prevalent in welfare systems. READ MORE

  5. 3. Child Support Law in California and Sweden : a Comparison Across Welfare State Models

    Author : Elizabeth Stuart Perry; Viola Boström; Pär Hallström; Nick Wikeley; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child support; family law; comparative law; comparative family law; Scandinavia; welfare state; California family law; Swedish family law; welfare law; financial consequences of divorce; solo parent households; sociology of the family; social democratic welfare state model; liberal welfare state model; child support reform; child support enforcement; child maintenance; United States child support; child support theory; underhåll till barn; underhållsbidrag; underhållsstöd; välfärdsmodeller; Kalifornien; amerikansk familjerätt; familjerätt; family law;

    Abstract : Ensuring just distribution of and adequate funding for children whose parents do not live together is a global legal challenge. It affects many families as well as every legal jurisdiction’s welfare state and family law. READ MORE

  6. 4. Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child : Fragmentation, Contention and Structural Bias

    Author : Damon Barrett; Pål Wrange; Allyn Taylor; Manfred Nowak; Rebecca Stern; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child rights; drug control; Convention on the Rights of the Child; structural bias; critical child rights studies; internationell rätt; International Law;

    Abstract : Responding to the harms caused by drug use and the drug trade is one of the most pressing and interdisciplinary challenges of our time, within which the protection of children has become central. But there has been relatively little academic attention to the international legal dimensions of drug policy, despite the existence of a dedicated international legal framework on the issue and a range of other treaties that include drugs in some way. READ MORE

  7. 5. The politics of undocumented migrant childhoods : Agency, rights, vulnerability

    Author : Jacob Lind; Anna Lundberg; Michael Strange; Karl Hanson; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Childhood; Undocumented migrants; Agency; Rights; Vulnerability;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate the paradoxical characteristics of political struggles that take place in relation to undocumented migrant childhoods. Drawing on ethnographic research in Birmingham, UK and Malmö, Sweden between 2014 and 2017, I take as my starting point the everyday life experiences of children and families who have experienced living under an immanent risk of deportation. READ MORE