Abstract
This article argues that children’s social status and positioning as children needs to be foregrounded in discussions of social citizenship and the re/development of the welfare state against a backdrop of neo-liberal economic and social reform. Set within a theoretical model that highlights the circular and de-centered exercise of power across fields of action, the subject of children’s citizenship, understood as a “citizenship habitus” is explored, taking the exemplar of education and migrant children’s positioning within schools.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 142-157 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Childhood |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 4 Mar 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2018 |
Keywords
- Children’s citizenship
- education
- inter-generational
- migrant children
- welfare