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Project

Children’s rights in appellate asylum proceedings in Belgium: a legal ethnography

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01CD16324

Duration

24 May 2025 → 23 October 2025

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Ellen Desmet

Fellow

Sara Lembrechts

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Administrative law
- Human rights law
- Sociology of law
- Immigration

Keywords

child friendly justice Children’s rights asylum procedures ethnography cocreation

Project description

This PhD project investigates the challenges and tensions at the crossroad of children’s procedural human rights and their appellate asylum procedure in Belgium. Through a combination of ethnographic and cocreative methodologies, the project analyses how these challenges and tensions can be understood and overcome before, during and after children’s interaction with the CALL.

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English

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