Street-connectedness through a Covid-19 lens
Exploring media representations of street-connected children to understand their societal positionality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emmy Weatherill (0000-0001-5405-1696, Manchester Metropolitan University), Su Lyn Corcoran (0000-0002-3513-2770, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Shuang Yin Cheryl Ng (0000-0002-7499-6758, Manchester Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-139 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20436106231156469 |
| OpenAlex | W4327613115 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The 2017 general comment (GC21) to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on children in street situations, provides a framework of legal guidance for governments developing policies aimed at protecting street-connected children and sets up the rationale for more awareness raising and public education to counter negative and deficit attitudes towards street-connectedness. Within this framework, the media has a role to play in either challenging conceptualisations of street-connected children as out-of-place within the public and predominantly adult domain described by urban streets, or in reinforcing ideological constructions of citizenship and normalised notions of childhood that result in negative stereotypes of these children. GC21 recommends that interventions targeted at street-connected children should be ethically responsible – adopting child rights approaches aimed at using accurate data/evidence that upholds the dignity of children, their personal integrity, and their right to life. As such, these approaches should also extend to how organisations engage with and utilise the media to represent street-connected children. Focusing on media representations of street-connected children during the six pandemic-affected months of February to July 2020, this paper provides a review of the content of the sources to provide an insight into the structural barriers that face street-connected children because of how they are positioned in society, during the pandemic and in general, and the extent to which the media reinforces or counters the rescue or removal narratives that can lead to inappropriate intervention responses
Citizenship · Dignity · Media studies · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social connectedness · Sociology · Spanking · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Children's Rights and Participation · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |