'Children Out of Place' and Human Rights

This volume brings together tributes to Judith Ennew's work and approach based on issues related to children she once referred to as 'out of place', that is to say children whose living conditions and ways of life appear far removed from Western images of childhood. It includes contributions on working children, children living on the street, orphans and victims of sexual exploitation. It covers developments and concepts used by Judith Ennew with an emphasis on perspectives of children's human rights, their participation, cultural sensitivity, research methodology, methods, ethics, monitoring, policy making and programming. In so doing, it brings together material that form a holistic view of not only her way of thinking, but of a policy and programming agenda developed by a number of researchers, academics and activists since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Auteur

Dr Antonella Invernizzi: Social scientist specialised in child research. Antonella has worked as an academic at Fribourg (Switzerland), Cambridge (UK) and Swansea (UK) Universities. Affiliated to the Wales Observatory on Human Rights of Children and Young People, Swansea University. Dr Manfred Liebel: Social scientist specialised in childhood and youth research, from 1981 to 2005 prof. of sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, actually director of the Master in Children's Rights and Childhood Studies (MACR) at the Freie Universität Berlin and director of the Institute of International Studies in Childhood and Youth at the International Academy Berlin (INA); carried out street work with marginalised children in Nicaraguain the 1990s; consultant of various German and international NGOs and the Latin American Movement of Working Children and Adolescents (MOLACNATs).

Dr Brian Milne: Research consultant, specialist in children's rights and related areas. Co-wrote The Next Generation: Lives of Third World Children (Zed Press, 1989) with Judith Ennew. He has also taught and trained children's rights.

Mrs Rebecca Budde holds a diploma in cultural science from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and is currently working on her PhD. She is a co-founder of the European Network of Masters in Children's Rights, which was established in 2004 by several European University representatives with the aim to establish Children's Rights in higher education and to promote adult attitudes that recognize and respect children as subjects of rights with own opinions and views. She also coordinates the MA Childhood Studies and Children's Rights at Freie Universität Berlin.

Contenu

Foreword Jaap Doek.- Introduction. Antonella Invernizzi and Manfred Liebel.- 1 The 3Ps of Judith Ennew: person, philosophy, pragmatism. Brian Milne.- 2 Judith Ennew and the Knowing Children project. Henk van Beers, Jasmin Lim and Prof. Roxana Waterson.- 3 Children out-of-place' and their 'unwritten rights'. Alejandro Cussiánovich.- 4 Other Children, Other Youth: Against Eurocentrism in Childhood and Youth Research. Manfred Liebel and Rebecca Budde.- 5 The quest for appropriate tools for monitoring children's rights: Judith vs the number crunchers Per Miljeteig.- 6 Methodology and ethics of child- rights oriented research and practice. Sharon Bessell.- 7 Working children, their rights and social movements. William Myers.- 8 Survival strategies of orphans and street children: African perspectives. Michael Bourdillon.- 9 Deconstructing children's problems to promote their rights: the example of sexual exploitation. Antonella Invernizzi,- 10 Working children. Nandana Reddy.- 11 Children's rights and child-led advocacy. Anne Trine Kjørholt.- 12 Anti-social behaviour policy in England and Wales: A violation of children's rights? Lucille Bradey.- 13 Forced against their will Glenn Miles.- 14 Bibliography of Judith Ennew's work.- 15 Index.