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Det ensamkommande barnets bästa - En studie om efterlevandet av FN:s barnkonvention vid mottagandet av ensamkommande barn

Franzén, Anne LU (2011) STVK01 20111
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The amount of unaccompanied refugee children arriving to Sweden has been drastically increasing over the last five years. In all work concerning children, Sweden has undertaken itself to comply with international agreements as the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This thesis concerns how international treaties can be complied on a local level within the states of the conventions.
This case study aims to describe how municipalities within Skåne län in Sweden, comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the reception of unaccompanied refugee children. It also aims to explain the variables which cause the different levels of compliance. In this research the reception will imply both municipalities’ decisions of whether a... (More)
The amount of unaccompanied refugee children arriving to Sweden has been drastically increasing over the last five years. In all work concerning children, Sweden has undertaken itself to comply with international agreements as the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This thesis concerns how international treaties can be complied on a local level within the states of the conventions.
This case study aims to describe how municipalities within Skåne län in Sweden, comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the reception of unaccompanied refugee children. It also aims to explain the variables which cause the different levels of compliance. In this research the reception will imply both municipalities’ decisions of whether a contract of receiving will be signed or not, and municipalities’ actual reception of these children.
The research is operated through qualitative methods, mainly by interviews. The empiric is further on analysed with the assistance of compliance and implementation theories. Through analyze the result is reached that municipalities without a contract of receiving fails in many areas to comply with the convention. Municipalities with an actual reception succeed better with the implementation of the treaty even though there are some deficits in the compliance. (Less)
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author
Franzén, Anne LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK01 20111
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Skåne län, ensamkommande barn, mottagande, FN:s konvention om barnets rättigheter, implementering, efterlevande, kommuner
language
Swedish
id
1968579
date added to LUP
2011-06-20 14:33:03
date last changed
2011-06-20 14:33:03
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  abstract     = {{The amount of unaccompanied refugee children arriving to Sweden has been drastically increasing over the last five years. In all work concerning children, Sweden has undertaken itself to comply with international agreements as the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This thesis concerns how international treaties can be complied on a local level within the states of the conventions.
This case study aims to describe how municipalities within Skåne län in Sweden, comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the reception of unaccompanied refugee children. It also aims to explain the variables which cause the different levels of compliance. In this research the reception will imply both municipalities’ decisions of whether a contract of receiving will be signed or not, and municipalities’ actual reception of these children. 
The research is operated through qualitative methods, mainly by interviews. The empiric is further on analysed with the assistance of compliance and implementation theories. Through analyze the result is reached that municipalities without a contract of receiving fails in many areas to comply with the convention. Municipalities with an actual reception succeed better with the implementation of the treaty even though there are some deficits in the compliance.}},
  author       = {{Franzén, Anne}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Det ensamkommande barnets bästa - En studie om efterlevandet av FN:s barnkonvention vid mottagandet av ensamkommande barn}},
  year         = {{2011}},
}