Abstract
This conclusive chapters draw together some of the contributors’ responses to Judith Ennew’s legacy in child research and activism. It also suggests some ways forward to ensure children out of place access their rights. Whilst acknowledging advances in the recognition of children as social actors, it suggests respect for children as economic and political actors is still to be realised. It reflects the disappointment of some of Judith’s long-term colleagues who point out inappropriate application of policies and legislation that set the experience of childhood in the Global North as a benchmark against which other childhoods are measured. Policies and programmes designed thus are inefficient or even detrimental for children. Judith Ennew’s has shown that throughout her career a culturally sensitive, socially and economically adapted research methodology is not only possible but is the way forward for ensuring respect for children’s human rights. Unfinished, with so much left to do, Judith Ennew’s legacy also leaves us with some extremely valuable projects that need to be developed. Amongst them are recent ones she worked on with Knowing Children, the NGO she founded in 2006.
At the time of the concluding this book, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is preparing a special comment that includes child labour. The post scriptum at the end of this chapter consequently focuses on the unwritten ‘right to work and do so in fair conditions and for fair wages’ Judith proposed in 2002. It outlines the views of working children’s movements who, since the 1990s, have attempted to advance a debate on children’s work and bear influence on international policies on child labour.
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The first four workshops were held in Cambridge twice, Camrose in Canada and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe once each. Michael first met Judith at the third event in Zimbabwe in 1989. The fifth ethnography workshop was in Singapore in 2006.
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Antonella Invernizzi (Chap. 9) shows there is also some criticism in the field that points out the need to restate the significance of and clarify the concept itself.
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The word normal, in quotes here, does not in itself describe any part of what is conventionally held to be normal, but is in fact drawing attention to the fact that things considered out of all norms are always there within civil society, perhaps on the margins or concealed, but nonetheless can only exist where they contribute to and are found within a civil society rather than being an entirely removed phenomenon. In that respect the word normal is not only appropriate but draws attention to the error often made by denying the position of certain things in so-called ‘normal’ social society.
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This was a submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 12, 2009, The right of the child to be heard.
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Funky Dragon website. http://www.funkydragon.org/en/history/archive/campaigns/campaignssupport/ Accessed 2. 1. 2015.
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Children’s Commissioner for Wales, 2008–2015.
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In a 1997 research in Nepal, it was found that physical growth was not necessarily hindered by living in the street and that at the point of origin of child migrants, other children did show development hampered by poverty (Panter Brick et al. 1996).
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A final demand stipulated in the declaration was: ‘For the next meetings to be held from now on, we want to be present at the same level as other participants (if 20 ministers, then 20 working children)’. This referred to the fact that, at the Amsterdam Child Labour Conference in 1997 and other similar conferences, the few children attending are usually confronted with an army of ministers and representatives of adult-led organisations.
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Budde, R., Invernizzi, A., Liebel, M., Milne, B. (2017). Unfinished, with so Much Left to Do, Judith Ennew’s Legacy. In: Invernizzi, A., Liebel, M., Milne, B., Budde, R. (eds) ‘Children Out of Place’ and Human Rights . Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33251-2_14
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