Technologies of Displacement and Children’s Right to Asylum in Sweden
(2017) In Human Rights Review 18(2). p.189-208- Abstract
- Through an analysis of 100 asylum decisions and 10 interviews with 20 asylum officers at the Swedish Migration Agency this article reveals two intricate processes through which children’s rights are displaced in the Swedish asylum process; by overlooking children’s individual claims for asylum through a circle of neglect, and negating children’s best interests. The article demonstrates how the balancing act between migration control on one hand and children’s rights on the other hand plays out in the asylum process, which results in a double displacement; the children are not adult enough to be addressed as asylum seekers and not children enough to deserve qualification as bearer of children’s rights. An in-depth analysis of everyday... (More)
- Through an analysis of 100 asylum decisions and 10 interviews with 20 asylum officers at the Swedish Migration Agency this article reveals two intricate processes through which children’s rights are displaced in the Swedish asylum process; by overlooking children’s individual claims for asylum through a circle of neglect, and negating children’s best interests. The article demonstrates how the balancing act between migration control on one hand and children’s rights on the other hand plays out in the asylum process, which results in a double displacement; the children are not adult enough to be addressed as asylum seekers and not children enough to deserve qualification as bearer of children’s rights. An in-depth analysis of everyday practices at institutions applying children’s rights is essential both to understand the reproduction of discrepancies between rights on paper and rights in practice, and to explore the potential of rights to disrupt oppressive vehicles of power. (Less)
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- Lundberg, Anna LU and Lind, Jacob
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- CRC, Children’s rights, Asylum, Negation, Migration control, Deportation regime
- in
- Human Rights Review
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85019185517
- ISSN
- 1524-8879
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12142-016-0442-2
- language
- English
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- b11cfcd1-7ecc-4054-b705-f1c79d543cdb
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title = {{Technologies of Displacement and Children’s Right to Asylum in Sweden}},
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