Children and the European Union: Rights, Welfare and Accountability
Helen Stalford - Hart Publishing Limited, 2012
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This book examines in detail the status of
children in the EU. Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives, including
the sociology of childhood and human rights discourse, it offers a critical
analysis of the legal and policy framework underpinning EU children's rights
across a range of areas, including family law, immigration, and child
protection. Traditionally children's 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 children's rights agenda. This culminated in the
Commission's 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
children's rights provisions into the proposed Lisbon Treaty. The book therefore
comes at a pivotal point in the history of EU children's rights, providing a
detailed and critical overview of a range of substantive areas, and making an
important contribution to international children's rights studies. It will be a
useful reference point for anyone interested in how the EU has developed
policies for children's rights. (Series: Modern Studies in European Law - Vol.
32)
