Jennifer L. Whelan

Reconceptualising Unaccompanied Child Asylum Seekers and the Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing. The intersection of their age, their seeking asylum, and separation from their parents creates a specific and acute triple burden of vulnerability. Their precariousness has long been recognised in international human rights law. Yet, human rights-based responses have been subordinated to progressive global securitisation of irregular migration through interception, interdiction, extraterritorial processing and immigration detention. Such an approach necessitates an urgent paradigm shift in how we comprehend their needs as children, the impact of punitive border control laws on them, and the responsibility of States to these children when they arrive at their borders seeking asylum. This book reconceptualises the relationship between unaccompanied child asylum seekers and States. It proposes a new conceptual framework by applying international human rights law, childhood studies and vulnerability theory scholarship in analysing State obligations to respond to these children. This framework incorporates a robust analysis of the operation and impact of laws on vulnerable populations, a taxonomy for articulating the gravity of any consequent harms and a method to prioritise recommendations for reform. The book then illustrates the framework's utility using Australia's treatment of unaccompanied children as a case study. This book illuminates key learnings from human rights law, childhood studies and vulnerability theory and transforms them into a new roadmap for law reform. As such, it will be a valuable practice-based resource for practitioners, non-government organisations, advocates, policymakers and the general public interested in advocating for the rights of vulnerable populations as well as for academics, researchers and students of human rights law, refugee law, childhood studies and vulnerability studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781032196299
• ISBN-10: 1032196297
• Artikelnr.: 64102842

Autorenporträt

Jennifer L. Whelan is a practising human rights lawyer and academic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The historical context of Australia's treatment of asylum
seekers, including unaccompanied child asylum seekers 2. Comprehending the
specific vulnerability of unaccompanied child asylum seekers 3. The
unfulfilled potential of human rights for unaccompanied child asylum
seekers 4. The potential of expanding vulnerability theory to prioritise
State responses to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children 5. Vulnerability
analysis of provision of care to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children,
using Australia as a case study 6. Vulnerability analysis of Australia's
processing of asylum claims of unaccompanied children 7. Vulnerability
analysis of Australia's provision of guardianship to unaccompanied
asylum-seeking children 8. Scope to expand the application of the
mitigating vulnerability framework to other contexts. Bibliography