The rights of the child in the context of migration (report)

Study of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on challenges and best practices in the implementation of the international framework for the protection of the rights of the child in the context of migration.
This report seeks to set out the specific standards and principles that inform the international framework of protection of the rights of the child in the context of migration. It examines challenges in the practical  implementation of this framework, and notes some best practices in terms of legislation, jurisprudence and joint efforts at the bilateral, regional and international levels. The report ends with conclusions and recommendations which aim to strengthen the implementation of the international framework and better protect the rights of the child in the context of migration.
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Children's experience of the Children Act 1989

By Roger Morgan,
Children's Rights Director for England.

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This article sets out the views and experience of children and young people on selected major aspects of their lives which are governed by provisions in the Children Act 1989. It draws on extensive statutory consultations with children in care, receiving children's social care services, or otherwise living away from home, carried out over the past eight years by the Children's Rights Director for England. (...)

YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE

YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE 
COLLECTION VOL 1 - 3
30 POWERFUL FILMS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Now Available for free on DVD to teachers worldwide for educational screenings

Armed with digital cameras and their own creativity - young people across the globe are bravely exposing human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities. YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE is a program of short films created by filmmakers under the age of 19. Youth Producing Change is presented by Adobe Youth Voices in association with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Europe’s Future: citizenship in a changing world

CiCe Annual Conference 2011
Dublin City University, Ireland
9 - 11 June 2011

The thirteenth annual conference of the CiCe Network has a particular focus on identity and citizenship in a changing world, and aims to give consideration to the experiences and understanding of young people, as well as to educational policy, practice or outcome in order to reflect on, or respond to, the opportunities and challenges that a future Europe may bring. The conference will bring together staff from higher education institutions who educate those in the education and social professions who work with children and young people. Papers at the conference will range from research findings to analysis of practice. We welcome all lecturers and researchers in universities and other higher education institutions with an interest in our themes, as well as those in NGOs and policy fields.

10 December 2010: Deadline for submission of all proposals. Please note that we will not be able to consider proposals received after 10 December

Info: http://cice.londonmet.ac.uk/conferences/main/main_home.cfm

CFP: Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives

May 20-21, 2011

Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA

Sponsored by the Department of Childhood Studies of Rutgers-Camden (http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/), the conference will convene scholars and practitioners from various fields to examine the questions and problems confronting childhoods today.

Keynote speakers: Professor Elizabeth Chin of Occidental College, USA, and Professor Judith Ennew of Swansea University, UK.

Scholars, practitioners and students interested in children and childhood studies are encouraged to attend.
The deadline for submitting abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the program is November 15, 2010. For information, please visit the newly-revamped website http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/ <http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/

II Encontro de Sociologia da Educação

Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MCR)

The Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MCR) is a part-time international and interdisciplinary postgraduate programme on children's rights, which takes place over a two-year period. The Programme is organised conjointly by the University of Fribourg and the Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB), both in Switzerland, and is designed for professionals who work with children’s rights issues, including lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, judges, social workers, government officials, staff of non-governmental organisations, academics and journalists.

The next cycle will start in March 2011.
More info: http://www.iukb.ch/index.php?id=63

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal

DIME is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on critical discourse and research in diaspora, indigenous, and minority education – is dedicated to researching cultural sustainability in a world increasingly consolidating under national, transnational, and global organizations. It aims to draw attention to, and learn from, the many initiatives being conducted around the globe in support of diaspora, indigenous, and minority education, which might otherwise go unnoticed.

DIME invites research from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that emphasize the centrality of marginal voices and a peripheral gaze, and which draw attention to the complex interrelations between political, economic, historical, and social contexts, as well as the ways in which these various contexts shape educational policies, practices, curricula, and outcomes. The journal welcomes articles that ground theoretical reflections in specific empirical research and case studies of diverse locations and peoples as yet underrepresented within scholarly research and literature, as well as action or participatory research studies of exemplary or “best” practices.

More info: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HDIM

Submissions ACIG Newsletter, Oct 2010

Desculpem... é um bocado em cima da hora, mas cá vai...

September 15th, is the deadline for all item submissions for consideration for the October, 2010 issue of the ACIG Newsletter. Please submit items online to editor, Rachael Stryker, at: rstryker@mills.edu We look forward to receiving any of the following items:
- Column Submissions (Methods and Ethics in the Anthropology of Childhood; Childhood & _______ ; Favorite Ethnographies of Childhood; My Experiences/Intersections with Interdisciplinary Research on Children)
- Letters to the Editor
- New Book Announcements
- Professional Opportunities and Upcoming Events
- Member News/Professional Updates
- Photos from Fieldwork
AAA Children and Childhood Interest Group

CFP: Immigration and Migration: Ethnography in Education in Dynamic Times and Spaces

32nd Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
"Immigration and Migration: Ethnography in Education in Dynamic Times and Spaces"
February 25 - 26, 2011

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2010
NOTIFICATION: early November, 2010
REQUIRED PREREGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS: December 1, 2010

PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Jan Blommaert, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Norma González, University of Arizona, USA
Stacey J. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

More on the forum website: http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum/proposals
Info: cue@gse.upenn.edu

Children's Voices. Experiences and Perceptions of European Children on Drug and Alcohol Issues

Report: http://www.crin.org/docs/ChildrenVoices.pdf

The purpose of this paper is to give meaning and insight into some of the key drug and alcohol issues that affect children from the perspectives of the children themselves. It is not to estimate the relative magnitude of a specific drug or alcohol problem or the numbers of children affected by it. Each section of this paper will be preceded by one or two key statistics and whilst the quotations that follow may highlight a need to develop more robust and detailed statistics on a key issue, the overriding objective is to give the children a voice.

CFP: CHANGING EDUCATION

DPR10: Discourse, Power, Resistance conference 2011

University of Plymouth, United Kingdom, 13-15 April 2011
Sponsored by the School of Secondary and Further Education Studies

The DPR conference returns to Plymouth in its tenth year, bringing together learners, teachers, researchers and policy-makers from the international education community to look at the crises in contemporary education, not just at post-compulsory level but across the board from pre-school to post-graduate. The need for change in education has never been more urgent. The conference will bring colleagues from around the world to think radically about education changing, and needing to change.

CFP: 3RD PARIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

Paris (France), Hotel Concorde La Fayette, 20-23 July 2011
The Conference will be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives and advanced students interested in Education. All areas of Education are invited. Proposals are in the form of abstracts. Presentation formats include individual paper sessions, symposia, workshops, roundtables and poster sessions. Languages of the conference: English and French.
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 October 2010. Closing date for early bird registration: 28 February 2011. For further information, submission and registration:
http://www.education-conferences.org

SEMINARIO DE ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL sobre “ANTROPOLOGÍA Y NIÑEZ. PROBLEMÁTICAS Y ENFOQUES CONTEMPORÁNEOS”

El seminario será dictado por la profesora DRA. ANDREA P. SZULC, y por el equipo docente compuesto por: DRA. ANA CAROLINA HECHT, LIC. MARÍA CELESTE HERNÁNDEZ, PROF. MELINA D. VARELA, PROF. LORENA E. VERÓN, MARÍA PÍA LEAVY, LIC. INÉS FINCHELSTEIN.

El mismo se dictará en la FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS de la UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES durante el 2° cuatrimestre los días miércoles de 13 a 17.

Los objetivos del curso son: a) Revisar la contribución de los estudios antropológicos para el conocimiento de la niñez y sus problemáticas contemporáneas. b) Discutir las posibilidades de la metodología del trabajo de campo etnográfico en investigaciones sobre y con niños. c) Estimular en los/as estudiantes asistentes el manejo crítico y analítico de la bibliografía trabajada.

Para ver las fechas de inscripciones: www.filo.uba.ar

CFP: Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons

12th and 13th March 2011
Centre for British Studies
Humboldt University, Berlin

Abstract deadline: 15th October 2010

The history of juvenile delinquency has too often been written from an exclusively national perspective with little in the way of comparative or transnational studies. Particularly lacking are comparisons between the construction and understanding of juvenile delinquency in the cultural fields of East and West. How have attempts to define and problematise child and youth behaviours differed between Eastern and Western cultures? Have children and childhood been imagined differently in East and West? How have cultural constructions of the young affected the ways in which the behaviour of children and young people has been classified and understood in different societies? Is juvenile delinquency a peculiarly western idea?
This two-day conference seeks to bring together scholars at all levels working in a variety of fields including history, sociology, literary studies, geography, anthropology and ethnography, to discuss these and related questions. It is hoped that such discussions will lead to a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which concepts of childhood, youth and delinquency have been shaped by particular cultural contexts.

Complete CFP and information

Global Studies of Childhood (new online research journal)

Global Studies of Childhood (GSC) is a peer-reviewed, internationally focused, online research journal. Its first issue will be published in March 2011. The journal provides an opportunity for researchers, university and college students and professionals who are interested in issues associated with childhood in education, family, and community contexts from a global perspective to present, share and discuss their work. GSC aims to present opportunities for scholars and emerging researchers to interrogate the ways in which globalization and new global perspectives impact on children’s life experiences.

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CFP: Fear and Safety in Children's Literature

*20th BIENNIAL CONGRESS OF IRSCL 4-8 JULY 2011*
*QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA*

Children's literature has always been responsive to the tenor of the times. Texts for children and young adults take up the social, political, and humanistic interests and ideologies of the past and present, as well as speculate about the future. Since the earliest fairy tales, children´s writers have given imaginative interpretation to the darker, riskier side of society, while also offering reassurance, hope, and celebration of the human spirit.

The Congress will address a range of critically important topics, texts, and theories related to the theme of Fear and Safety in Children´s Literature. Confirmed keynote speakers are: Professor Mavis Reimer, Canada Chair in the Culture of Childhood, University of Winnipeg; Professor David Buckingham, Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, London University (UK); and Professor Gillian Whitlock, University of Queensland (Australia).

*Submissions for abstracts open: 19 July 2010.*
*Closing date:* *November 1, 2010*.

Please visit the Congress website for details: http://irscl2011.com/

Democracia, liberdade e disciplina na escola pública

Universidade do Minho - 15 a 18 de Julho
V Curso de Verão, Círculo de Saberes 2010, DEMOCRACIA, LIBERDADE E DISCIPLINA NA ESCOLA PÚBLICA, orientado por Carlos Gomes, Almerindo Afonso e Carlos Estêvão.
Esta iniciativa é particularmente dirigida a professores dos vários ciclos de ensino, membros de órgãos de Direcção e Gestão de Escolas e Agrupamentos e de organismos da administração da educação, pais e encarregados de educação, técnicos de educação, responsáveis autárquicos, animadores educativos e culturais, formadores e outros membros e dirigentes associativos e sindicais envolvidos na educação.
Este Curso tem como objectivos:
- Problematizar sociologicamente os conceitos de liberdade, de autoridade e de disciplina.
- Proporcionar instrumentos de análise sociológica da complexa relação entre liberdade, autoridade e disciplina.
- Proporcionar orientações para uma acção sociologicamente fundamentada no desempenho de funções educativas e pedagógicas.
- Visibilizar a relevância e a utilidade da análise sociológica da educação.
- Visibilizar os contributos da sociologia da educação na investigação e análise da relação educativa e pedagógica.
Contacto para mais informações: calexandra@ie.uminho.pt

Temas de Música e Comunicação para a Infância (Seminário de Doutoramento)

Caros colegas

Coordenador(es) de Doutoramento e Coordenador de Departamento de Antropologia, Investigação

Vimos dar conhecimento do programa e conteúdos do seminário (opção livre) de Doutoramento - Temas de Música e Comunicação para a Infância - oferecido pelo CESEM de forma a poderem ser divulgados junto dos alunos de doutoramento 

Com os nossos melhores cumprimentos

Ana Monção e Helena Rodrigues

Oferecido pelo CESEM (Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical – FCSH/UNL)

Informações e programa aqui

Workshop-i Transnational family making: children, young people and migration

Title: Workshop-i Transnational family making: children, young people and migration

Date: 2010-07-15

Description: European University Institute Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies is inviting papers for its 12th
Mediterranean Research Meeting: 6 - 9 April 2011, Florence.
Call for papers: Workshop Transnational family making:
children, young people and migration The workshop welcomes
presentations that ex ...

Contact: pantea@policy.hu

URL: www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/InternationalTransnationalRelations/MediterraneanProgramme/MRM/MRM2011/ws12.aspx

Announcement ID: 177144

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=177144