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1 - Introduction

An Urgent Call to Understand the Status of Children and Young People within a Social Justice Paradigm

from Part I - Social Justice and Human Rights for Children and Young People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers ,
Aradhana Bela Sood ,
Cara Lomaro  and
Mark D. Weist
Edited by
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers ,
Aradhana Bela Sood  and
Mark D. Weist
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Aradhana Bela Sood
Affiliation:
Virginia Commonwealth University
Mark D. Weist
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina
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Summary

This introductory chapter presents the goal of social justice for children and young people to ensure that children are served and protected within their countries and communities. Despite this important goal, children and young people are often overlooked as critical social justice stakeholders with adults and other country experiences prioritized instead. When social justice issues among young people are addressed, it is often through specific interventions rather than taking a comprehensive approach to social justice for children on a macro level. The chapter discusses the importance of children and young people’s involvement as critical stakeholders in systemic social justice reform. Prior models of social justice are critiqued and a call for a contemporary, global approach to social justice for children and young people is warranted. The chapter introduces the parameters of the volume that follows and how it takes an international approach that includes the presentation of case studies from low- and lower-middle-income countries, as well as upper-middle- and high-income countries as per the World Bank’s 2018–2019 new country classifications.

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social justicenew paradigmchildren and young peopleinternationalsocial justice stakeholders
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Social Justice for Children and Young People
International Perspectives
 , pp. 3 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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