Treated Like a Child

Contents

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

 Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner

2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?

 Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner

3 ‘Handle with Care’: Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame

 Michael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole

4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

 Claire Breen

5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination

 John Wall

6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities

 Lucia Rabello de Castro

7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Children’s Rights in the Climate Crisis

 Aoife Daly

8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?

 Manfred Liebel

9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration

 Rebecca Thorburn Stern

10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery

 Priscilla Alderson

11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden

 Pernilla Leviner

Index