Citizens in Their in Own Right: Achieving Adequate Recognition of Children in Australia's Immigration and Citizenship Framework

Kim Rubenstein; Jacqueline Field

Citizens in Their in Own Right: Achieving Adequate Recognition of Children in Australia's Immigration and Citizenship Framework

Kim Rubenstein
, Jacqueline Field

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Abstract

We argue in this chapter that Australia's current law is insufficient to protect the best interests of children of refugees and asylum seekers and acknowledge their individual circumstances, as required by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This highlights the need to reform Australia's immigration and citizenship framework relating to children so children's claims to citizenship can be considered in their own right, rather than depending on the method in which their parents reached Australia's shores.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Creating New Futures: Settling Children and Youth From Refugee Backgrounds
Editors	Mary Crock
Place of Publication	Sydney
Publisher	The Federation Press
Chapter	14
Pages	241-256
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9781862879997
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Citizens in Their in Own Right: Achieving Adequate Recognition of Children in Australia's Immigration and Citizenship Framework. / Rubenstein, Kim; Field, Jacqueline.
Creating New Futures: Settling Children and Youth From Refugee Backgrounds. ed. / Mary Crock. Sydney: The Federation Press, 2015. p. 241-256.

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