The Right to be Heard of Refugee Children: Views of Professionals on the Participation of Children in Asylum Procedures in the Netherlands

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children the right to be heard and to participate in judicial and administrative proceedings. Children are seen as bearers and subjects of rights, instead of passive recipients of protection rights. Refugee children, however, are often depicted as vulnerable human beings who require protection. This article conceptualises refugee children’s right to be heard in asylum procedures from a children’s rights perspective, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the development and increased prominence in law and practice of the concept of child p... Mehr ...