Protecting the Rights of Children in Migration—Volume 2
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 February 2026) | Viewed by 3334
Special Issue Editors
Interests: children's rights; business law clinic; child and family advocacy clinic; immigration clinic; trusts and estates clinic
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Interests: juvenile justice; refugee; migrant children
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
When we co-edited the Special Issue on "Protecting the Rights of Children in Migration" in Laws in 2023, we were hopeful that policymakers, world leaders, and frontline workers would take to heart the rights of children in migration and treat them with the dignity and compassion they are owed as a matter of law, as well as based on our shared humanity with the children of the world.
Unfortunately, recent historical events have made clear that legal experts and children's advocates continue to be needed to analyze and document the rights of children on the move, as well as to emphasize strategies and theories for enforcing those rights. Thus, we decided to reopen this Special Issue and add a second volume to the collection of articles originally published two years ago.
We are once again seeking research papers, opinion pieces, commentaries, reflections, and book reviews related to cases, strategies, proceedings, resources, and efforts to protect the rights of children in migration. Authors may be academics, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, students, and, of course, children and families who have experienced the challenges and rewards of the migratory process.
Our hope is that this expanding collection of works will serve as a resource to children, their families and advocates, students, researchers, scholars, and policymakers. We want to create a platform that will create greater understanding of the rights of children in migration and the challenges they face in the fulfillment of their rights, with a focus on strategies and remedies to overcome these challenges in individual cases, nationally, and as a global society. This shared knowledge may help to design and implement migration channels, policies, and practices that will ensure that future generations of children will be able to get where they need to go quickly and safely without unnecessary delay or trauma in the years to come.
With the effects of the climate crisis, economic inequality, armed conflict, and racial and gender violence evident worldwide, children and families will continue to be compelled to migrate for generations to come. It is critical that we continue to focus our collective time, expertise, and energy on this critical issue. We hope you will consider sharing what you have learned thus far so we can help disseminate it worldwide, for free, in this Special Issue.
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Warren Binford
Dr. Michael Bochenek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- children
- youth
- immigration
- migration
- children's rights
- human rights
- international law
- refugees
- immigrants
- migrants
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