Governing vulnerabilised migrant childhoods through children’s rights
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Jacob Lind
- Source
- Subject
- deportability
05 social sciences
vulnerability
0507 social and economic geography
Vulnerability
Social Sciences
Samhällsvetenskap
Criminology
humanitarianism
governmentality
050906 social work
undocumented migration
Children’s rights
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Sociology
0509 other social sciences
050703 geography
Governmentality
- Language
- English
This article analyses four different contexts in Sweden where children’s rights have been mobilised to govern vulnerabilised migrant childhoods. The concept of ‘vulnerabilisation’ is suggested to capture the political processes creating the conditions for defining and attributing vulnerability. To enable children’s rights to be a productive tool for challenging the repressive governing of migrant families and children, the article argues for the need of a problematisation and contextualisation of both the children’s rights paradigm and the vulnerabilisation of migrant childhoods.