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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Children and the European Union: Rights Welfare and Accountability by Professor Helen Stalford
This book examines in detail the status of children in the EU. Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives including sociology of childhood and human rights discourse it offers a critical analysis of the legal and policy framework underpinning EU childrens rights across a range of areas including family law immigration and child protection.Traditionally childrens rights at this level have been articulated primarily in the context of the free movement of persons provisions inevitably restricting entitlement to migrant children of EU nationality. In the past decade however innovative interpretations of Community law by the ECJ coupled with important constitutional developments have prompted the institutions to develop a much more robust childrens rights agenda. This culminated in the Commissions launch in July 2006 of a comprehensive EU strategy to promote and safeguard the rights of the child as well as the incorporation of a range of childrens rights provisions into the proposed Lisbon Treaty.The book therefore comes at a pivotal point in the history of EU childrens rights providing a detailed and critical overview of a range of substantive areas and making an important contribution to international childrens rights studies.