Children and Citizenship

Jane Williams is a lecturer in law at the University of Swansea. She specialises in social work law, and children's rights. Other publications include Children and Citizenship (SAGE, 2007), co-edited with Antonella Invernizzi

Foreword - Jaap Doek PART ONE: NOTIONS OF CHILDREN'S CITIZENSHIP Introduction Unpacking Children's Citizenship - Ruth Lister Education for Citizenship - Andrew Lockyer Children as Citizens and Political Literacy Citizenship From Below - Manfred Liebel Children's Rights and Social Movements From Chattels to Citizens? 80 Years of Eglantyne Jebb's Legacy to Children and Beyond - Brian Milne Children as Rights Holders - Jane Fortin Awareness and Scepticism Children as 'Citizens' Of the United Nations (UN) - Judith Ennew PART TWO: CONSTRUCTIONS OF CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES Introduction Care And Control In The Construction Of Childhood - Allison James, Penny Curtis And Jo Birch Youth, Citizenship and the Problem of Dependence - Gill Jones When Does Citizenship Begin? Economics and Early Childhood - Priscilla Alderson Dilemmas in Children's Participation in England - Virginia Morrow Everyday Lives of Working Children and Notions of Citizenship - Antonella Invernizzi PART THREE: HOW POLICY AND LAW THINK ABOUT CHILDREN'S CITIZENSHIP Introduction Will Law Think About Children? Reflections on Youth Matters - Christine Piper The Relevance of European Union Citizenship to Children - Helen Stalford Devolution and the Language of Children's Rights in the UK - Samantha Clutton Institutional Support for the UNCRC's `Citizen Child' - Jane Williams and Rhian Croke

`This collection...is outstanding. It has an excellent grasp of the field and students in fields of both social studies of childhood and children's rights and citizenship will gain a lot from reading and studying the book' - Jens Qvortrup, Professor of Sociology, University of Trondheim `Anyone who is concerned with citizenship should grapple with the thesis in this collection. This stimulating book will provoke discussion of what is involved in recognising that children are as much part of our society as adults' - Professor Michael Freeman, Editor of International Journal of Children's Rights