‘Children Out of Place’ and Human Rights
In Memory of Judith Ennew
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Economies of scale: body mass index and costs of cardiac surgery in Ontario, Canada
An obesity paradox has been described, whereby obese patients have better health outcomes than normal weight patients in certain clinical situations, including cardiac surgery. However, the relationship betwee...
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Unfinished, with so Much Left to Do, Judith Ennew’s Legacy
This conclusive chapters draw together some of the contributors’ responses to Judith Ennew’s legacy in child research and activism. It also suggests some ways forward to ensure children out of place access the...
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The 3Ps of Judith Ennew: Person, Philosophy and Pragmatism
This chapter is an extended version of the symposium paper that presents Judith as a person of flesh and blood rather than an icon some people may believe she has become. Her work was who she was and who she w...
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Open AccessA novel software program for detection of potential air emboli during cardiac surgery
Risks associated with air emboli introduced during cardiac surgery have been highlighted by reports of postoperative neuropsychological dysfunction, myocardial dysfunction, and mortality. Presently, there are ...
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Signed, Ratified but Not Understood
Children’s rights are part of the human rights agenda and not just a bolt-on to child welfare. Currently those rights represent an unfinished movement from needs, welfare and service approaches to a rights-bas...
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‘It’s a Lie. They Didn’t Ask Us’
One boy’s response to what the report for his country to Committee on the Rights of the Child said about child labour was unrepresentative of views of working children themselves. The history of children’s rig...
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Meaningless Phrases
One of the most apparent effects of the separation of children’s rights from the larger body of human rights has been the very rapid growth of a unique language. It has taken some of that language from existin...
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Childhoods Past
When ‘The Next Generation’ appeared in early 1989, it included 12 short country studies that were a brief examination of the social and economic situation of those nations in which the emphasis was on the situ...
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Introduction
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted in 1989 and entered into force in 1990. Children’s rights were not ‘invented’ with those events but had a pedigree that came with the end of the F...
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Signed, Ratified but Not Implemented
The CRC entered into force in September 1990 after following the deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Since then the vast majority of nations ha...
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Hijacked Agendas
Inflated numbers and histrionic descriptions of particular groups of children have been used as means of emphasising particular aspects of children’s human rights. In the case of street children, distortions i...
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There Is No Such Thing As Children’s Rights
One of the most apparent effects of the separation of children’s rights from the larger body of human rights has been the very rapid growth of a unique language. It has taken some of that language from existin...
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Are Children’s Rights Worth Pursuing?
In any ongoing process, there is never a conclusion. Therefore, this is an attempt to summarise a positive but critically perceived review of a quarter of a century of the CRC. It is a view that takes into acc...
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Methodology and Methods
This describes the methodology and methods chosen for analysis of Chaps. 4, 5, 6, 7
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Complementary Areas That Contribute to Notions of Children’s Citizenship
Areas examined in previous chapters have, because of the large amount of time and material they cover, omitted a number of issues that are also important. This chapter describes a few of these omissions. As ex...
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Introduction: The Children’s Citizenship Paradigm
The Introduction asks what a child is? This is looked at in terms of the social construction that begins with biological childhood and ends with puberty, thereafter being called adolescence. This is taken furt...
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Citizenship
This chapter looks at citizenship in order to define what it is and to put it in the context of the topic this book is examining: children’s citizenship. It begins by looking at the definitions of citizenship ...
