Promoting Migrant Children’s Rights by Developing Child-Centered Information

Stalford, Helen ORCID: 0000-0002-9782-7738 and Clough, Tilly (2025) Promoting Migrant Children’s Rights by Developing Child-Centered Information In: The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children. Oxford University Press,Oxford, pp. 615-634. ISBN 9780197654750

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Summary

Abstract This chapter argues that promoting children’s right to information is crucial to enabling them to assert broader rights. This is particularly important in a migration context where children’s rights and interests are routinely ignored or conflated with those of their parents. The analysis draws on a Home Office–funded project carried out in June 2019–June 2021 to develop child-focused information relating to the EU Settlement Scheme, the immigration status established in the aftermath of Brexit. The analysis discusses the process, value, and effects of informing children directly of the implications of and process for registering for this new status. Importantly, it highlights the potential of child-centered information to serve as a tool for deliberative democracy that can stimulate listening and learning by legal experts and policymakers about how those with lived experience access and apply formal measures and ultimately stimulate responsive reform.

Item Type:	Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	44 Human Society, 48 Law and Legal Studies, 4403 Demography, Pediatric Research Initiative, 3 Good Health and Well Being, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	19 Mar 2024 08:31
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2026 19:15
DOI:	10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197654750.013.42
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3179687
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