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INGI IUSMEN

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What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research?: Reflections on a Participatory Project With Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK

International journal of qualitative methods, 2023

Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in prac... more Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our experiences of a participatory peer research project involving unaccompanied young people seeking asylum (16–25 years) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the project adhered to a robust ethical framework, it became apparent at an early stage in the empirical phase that our methods needed to acknowledge and accommodate the trauma of those involved in the project much more thoughtfully and effectively than our ethical framework suggested. With this in mind, we set about identifying the key elements of a T-I approach to research and how these might add value to research with vulnerable and marginalised populations. Our model of a T-I approach to peer research is framed around five core principles: working reflectively with those with lived experience; contextualising trauma; nurturing trust; showing care; and empowering those involved in and affected by the research.

Drivers of change, policy entrepreneurship and the institutionalization of children’s rights

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

Child protection in Romania and European Union accession

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

European Union human rights regime

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

European Union accession conditionality and human rights in Romania

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

The EU as a children's rights actor : law, policy and structural dimensions

The European Union and human rights

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

List of abbreviations

Children’s rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime, 2015

The EU as a Children’s Rights Actor

The EU as a Children’s Rights Actor, 2015

Unaccompanied Migrant Children and the Implications of Brexit

Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit, 2019

The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the Europ... more The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the European and international levels. The 2015/16 ‘refugee crisis’ has exposed the weaknesses in design and implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) with respect to the protection of child refugees in general, and UAMs in particular. In light of these shortcomings, the European Commission set out to reform the CEAS rules with the aim of bolstering the human rights protection dimension. This chapter will discuss the implications of Brexit on UAMs from a gender perspective by arguing that male UAMs, in particular, will be most affected by it. Without the EU regime (legal and policy) of rights protection, male UAMs in the UK will face reduced children’s rights protection, lack of specific safeguards for UAMs, such as guardianship, and, therefore, will be exposed to the risks of child trafficking and exploitation.

Policy feedback effects

Whose Children? Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Europe: A Case of Diffused Responsibility?

The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 2020

This paper examines the reasons behind the failure of EU and national policy interventions to pro... more This paper examines the reasons behind the failure of EU and national policy interventions to protect unaccompanied migrant children’s (unaccompanied minors – uams) rights during the refugee crisis in Europe. By drawing on policy documents and empirical data, it is argued that the deficient protection of uam s’ child rights was essentially a failure of responsibility allocation in line with the “bystander effect” analytical explanation. While this argument does not disregard the role of other explanatory factors, such as the lack of European solidarity, poor legal enforcement and financial reasons, among others, it is claimed that the diffusion of responsibility (in theory and practice) between various policy systems at the national level, as well as between the EU and domestic levels, contributed to the failure to protect uam s’ child rights across Europe.

Unaccompanied Migrant Children and the Implications of Brexit

Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit, 2019

The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the Europ... more The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the European and international levels. The 2015/16 ‘refugee crisis’ has exposed the weaknesses in design and implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) with respect to the protection of child refugees in general, and UAMs in particular. In light of these shortcomings, the European Commission set out to reform the CEAS rules with the aim of bolstering the human rights protection dimension. This chapter will discuss the implications of Brexit on UAMs from a gender perspective by arguing that male UAMs, in particular, will be most affected by it. Without the EU regime (legal and policy) of rights protection, male UAMs in the UK will face reduced children’s rights protection, lack of specific safeguards for UAMs, such as guardianship, and, therefore, will be exposed to the risks of child trafficking and exploitation.

A credible EU involvement with human rights

Do as I Say not as I Do': EUtopia, the CEECs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime

This article examines EU’s involvement in human rights from the perspective of a promoter of huma... more This article examines EU’s involvement in human rights from the perspective of a promoter of human rights norms. It is argued that a human rights EUtopia has emerged, i.e. there is a gap between the real and normative EU - when it comes to human rights - which affects the credibility of the EU’s human rights regime. The EU lacks a solid legal entrenchment of human rights and there are different degrees of human rights protection in the Member States which amount to different hierarchical concepts of human rights. There are legal shortcomings regarding EU’s human rights promotion to third countries, while the Copenhagen human rights conditionality attached to EU accession was vaguely stated and was not underpinned by EU internal human rights templates. Furthermore, the screening process of the candidates- by the use of double standards - entailed EU’s involvement in matters falling outside its own internal remits. Hence the credibility of the EU human rights regime is jeopardised by ...

Book Review: Social Policy in the European Union

How Are Children’s Rights (Mis)Interpreted in Practice? The European Commission, Children’s Rights and Policy Narratives

International children’s rights and principles are enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights o... more International children’s rights and principles are enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). All EU Member States are parties to the CRC, and therefore, they are legally bound to translate its key principles and provisions into concrete legislative and policy measures. Among the fundamental child rights principles, the best interests of the child (Art.3 CRC) and child participation (Art.12 CRC) are the most complex and challenging to implement in practice. More recently, the EU, under the leadership of the European Commission, has endorsed the promotion of children’s rights as one of its overarching policy objectives. This chapter will assess how successful the EU institutions have been in interpreting ‘child participation’ and ‘the best interests of the child’. By focusing on the European Commission, this chapter will examine the extent to which policy narratives have shaped the meanings attached to these two child rights principles in relation to concrete po...

The EU and the De-Institutionalisation of Children

The EU as a Children’s Rights Actor

‘Non multa, sed multum’: EU Roma policy and the challenges of Roma inclusion

Journal of European Integration, Apr 25, 2018

Romania's Accession to the EU and the EU Children's Rights Agenda: Policy Entrepreneurship and Feedback Effects

Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2012

ABSTRACT Policy entrepreneurs and feedback effects can shape the European Union&#39;s (EU&amp... more ABSTRACT Policy entrepreneurs and feedback effects can shape the European Union&#39;s (EU&#39;s) human rights agenda. This article examines the role of policy entrepreneurs and policy feedback in relation to EU intervention in children&#39;s rights in Romania and the impact of this intervention on the EU itself. The children&#39;s rights accession conditionality as applied on Romania amounted to an interventionist policy, which radically overhauled the Romanian children&#39;s rights provisions. The Romanian children&#39;s case, however, provided EU policy entrepreneurs with a window of opportunity to introduce children&#39;s rights as an EU internal policy, while, in the context of EU enlargement, positive feedback effects have entrenched the protection of children&#39;s rights as an EU accession condition. It is shown that the children&#39;s rights conditionality applied on Romania before 2007 has impacted upon the EU&#39;s approach to children&#39;s rights by forging the development of institutional structures and policy mechanisms at the Commission level to promote children&#39;s rights in the EU&#39;s internal and external policy dimensions.

What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research?: Reflections on a Participatory Project With Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK

International journal of qualitative methods, 2023

Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in prac... more Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our experiences of a participatory peer research project involving unaccompanied young people seeking asylum (16–25 years) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the project adhered to a robust ethical framework, it became apparent at an early stage in the empirical phase that our methods needed to acknowledge and accommodate the trauma of those involved in the project much more thoughtfully and effectively than our ethical framework suggested. With this in mind, we set about identifying the key elements of a T-I approach to research and how these might add value to research with vulnerable and marginalised populations. Our model of a T-I approach to peer research is framed around five core principles: working reflectively with those with lived experience; contextualising trauma; nurturing trust; showing care; and empowering those involved in and affected by the research.

Drivers of change, policy entrepreneurship and the institutionalization of children’s rights

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

Child protection in Romania and European Union accession

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

European Union human rights regime

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

European Union accession conditionality and human rights in Romania

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

The EU as a children's rights actor : law, policy and structural dimensions

The European Union and human rights

Manchester University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2015

List of abbreviations

Children’s rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime, 2015

The EU as a Children’s Rights Actor

The EU as a Children’s Rights Actor, 2015

Unaccompanied Migrant Children and the Implications of Brexit

Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit, 2019

The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the Europ... more The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the European and international levels. The 2015/16 ‘refugee crisis’ has exposed the weaknesses in design and implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) with respect to the protection of child refugees in general, and UAMs in particular. In light of these shortcomings, the European Commission set out to reform the CEAS rules with the aim of bolstering the human rights protection dimension. This chapter will discuss the implications of Brexit on UAMs from a gender perspective by arguing that male UAMs, in particular, will be most affected by it. Without the EU regime (legal and policy) of rights protection, male UAMs in the UK will face reduced children’s rights protection, lack of specific safeguards for UAMs, such as guardianship, and, therefore, will be exposed to the risks of child trafficking and exploitation.

Policy feedback effects

Whose Children? Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Europe: A Case of Diffused Responsibility?

The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 2020

This paper examines the reasons behind the failure of EU and national policy interventions to pro... more This paper examines the reasons behind the failure of EU and national policy interventions to protect unaccompanied migrant children’s (unaccompanied minors – uams) rights during the refugee crisis in Europe. By drawing on policy documents and empirical data, it is argued that the deficient protection of uam s’ child rights was essentially a failure of responsibility allocation in line with the “bystander effect” analytical explanation. While this argument does not disregard the role of other explanatory factors, such as the lack of European solidarity, poor legal enforcement and financial reasons, among others, it is claimed that the diffusion of responsibility (in theory and practice) between various policy systems at the national level, as well as between the EU and domestic levels, contributed to the failure to protect uam s’ child rights across Europe.

Unaccompanied Migrant Children and the Implications of Brexit

Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit, 2019

The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the Europ... more The protection of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) is a moot legal and policy matter both at the European and international levels. The 2015/16 ‘refugee crisis’ has exposed the weaknesses in design and implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) with respect to the protection of child refugees in general, and UAMs in particular. In light of these shortcomings, the European Commission set out to reform the CEAS rules with the aim of bolstering the human rights protection dimension. This chapter will discuss the implications of Brexit on UAMs from a gender perspective by arguing that male UAMs, in particular, will be most affected by it. Without the EU regime (legal and policy) of rights protection, male UAMs in the UK will face reduced children’s rights protection, lack of specific safeguards for UAMs, such as guardianship, and, therefore, will be exposed to the risks of child trafficking and exploitation.

A credible EU involvement with human rights

Do as I Say not as I Do': EUtopia, the CEECs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime

This article examines EU’s involvement in human rights from the perspective of a promoter of huma... more This article examines EU’s involvement in human rights from the perspective of a promoter of human rights norms. It is argued that a human rights EUtopia has emerged, i.e. there is a gap between the real and normative EU - when it comes to human rights - which affects the credibility of the EU’s human rights regime. The EU lacks a solid legal entrenchment of human rights and there are different degrees of human rights protection in the Member States which amount to different hierarchical concepts of human rights. There are legal shortcomings regarding EU’s human rights promotion to third countries, while the Copenhagen human rights conditionality attached to EU accession was vaguely stated and was not underpinned by EU internal human rights templates. Furthermore, the screening process of the candidates- by the use of double standards - entailed EU’s involvement in matters falling outside its own internal remits. Hence the credibility of the EU human rights regime is jeopardised by ...

Book Review: Social Policy in the European Union

How Are Children’s Rights (Mis)Interpreted in Practice? The European Commission, Children’s Rights and Policy Narratives

International children’s rights and principles are enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights o... more International children’s rights and principles are enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). All EU Member States are parties to the CRC, and therefore, they are legally bound to translate its key principles and provisions into concrete legislative and policy measures. Among the fundamental child rights principles, the best interests of the child (Art.3 CRC) and child participation (Art.12 CRC) are the most complex and challenging to implement in practice. More recently, the EU, under the leadership of the European Commission, has endorsed the promotion of children’s rights as one of its overarching policy objectives. This chapter will assess how successful the EU institutions have been in interpreting ‘child participation’ and ‘the best interests of the child’. By focusing on the European Commission, this chapter will examine the extent to which policy narratives have shaped the meanings attached to these two child rights principles in relation to concrete po...

The EU and the De-Institutionalisation of Children

The EU as a Children’s Rights Actor

‘Non multa, sed multum’: EU Roma policy and the challenges of Roma inclusion

Journal of European Integration, Apr 25, 2018

Romania's Accession to the EU and the EU Children's Rights Agenda: Policy Entrepreneurship and Feedback Effects

Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2012

ABSTRACT Policy entrepreneurs and feedback effects can shape the European Union&#39;s (EU&amp... more ABSTRACT Policy entrepreneurs and feedback effects can shape the European Union&#39;s (EU&#39;s) human rights agenda. This article examines the role of policy entrepreneurs and policy feedback in relation to EU intervention in children&#39;s rights in Romania and the impact of this intervention on the EU itself. The children&#39;s rights accession conditionality as applied on Romania amounted to an interventionist policy, which radically overhauled the Romanian children&#39;s rights provisions. The Romanian children&#39;s case, however, provided EU policy entrepreneurs with a window of opportunity to introduce children&#39;s rights as an EU internal policy, while, in the context of EU enlargement, positive feedback effects have entrenched the protection of children&#39;s rights as an EU accession condition. It is shown that the children&#39;s rights conditionality applied on Romania before 2007 has impacted upon the EU&#39;s approach to children&#39;s rights by forging the development of institutional structures and policy mechanisms at the Commission level to promote children&#39;s rights in the EU&#39;s internal and external policy dimensions.