264 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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The child asylum seeker poses unique challenges for reception and refugee status determination systems, not least because the child is entitled to have his or her rights as a child respected as a matter of international and regional human rights law. In the last decade the European Union has increasingly engaged with children’s rights, with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in December... Read more
Introduction 1. Introduction to European asylum law 2. Introduction to the rights of the child and their relationship to European asylum law 3. The right of the child to seek and qualify for international protection 4. The right of the child to be heard 5. The right of the child to protection and care 6. Certain socio-economic rights of the child 7. The right of the child to liberty Conclusion
Biography
Ciara Smyth is a Lecturer in law at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
... this book shines as a concise and comprehensive child rights-based assessment of European asylum law; and it is hoped that its sharp and critical legal analysis, combined with the sensitivity for children and their rights, will attract academics, students and legal practitioners, as well as policy-makers and legislators in Europe in order to further improve on a Common Child-sensitive European Asylum System. - Helmut Sax, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna for International Journal of Refugee Law
