2024/03/01 by Anne Wihstutz · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees #Religious Education and Schools #Global Education and Multiculturalism
paper · doi:10.3167/aia.2024.310105
openalex publication_date 2024/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract This article expounds on the relationship between children's rights and asylum discourse as pertaining to the figure of the non-citizen child. Key for the understanding of the political identity of the asylum-seeking child, who is depicted as trapped between paternalistic concepts of childhood and restrictive asylum law on the one hand, and empowering children's rights discourse on the other, is an antagonism in the logic underlying human rights and citizenship discourse. Ethnographic findings with accompanied asylum-seeking children in Germany substantiate the argument, from the perspective of ‘new’ childhood sociology. The concept of citizenship is elucidated as practice lived in the everyday in children's action against exclusionary effects in refugee centres.