Introduction

Vulnerability and caregiving. A human rights approach

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1259

Keywords:

vulnerability, care, equality, rights

Abstract

The set of papers presented and introduced here reflects the dialogue established between three closely related concepts (vulnerability, care and rights) at the workshop of the same title held online in 2020. Starting from an understanding of vulnerability as a cross-cutting and universal phenomenon, several of the papers reflect on the very nature of the concept and from the point of view of the role of the state and the law in addressing the negative effects of vulnerability. Along with vulnerability, the other axis of the papers is that of care, both in its ethical and political dimensions and from a gender perspective. All of this from an Iberian perspective (related to the constitutional treatment and some legal aspects in Spain and Portugal), but which also encompasses the European perspective, and, in a broader sense, that related to human rights.

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Author Biographies

Luísa Neto, Universidade do Porto

Professora Associada com Agregação da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto (FDUP), rua dos Bragas, 223, 4050-123 Porto, Portugal. Email: lneto@direito.up.pt

Anabela Costa Leão, Universidade do Porto

Doutora em Direito, Professora Auxiliar da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto, Investigadora do CIJE/ Researcher CIJE. Rua dos Bragas, 223 I 4050-123 Porto (Portugal). Email: aleao@direito.up.pt

Jorge Gracia, Universidade do Porto / UNIR / Universidad de Zaragoza

Doctor en Sociología Jurídica e Instituciones políticas,  Professor Convidado na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto, FDUP (Oporto, Portugal); Profesor Criminología Universidad Internacional de La Rioja UNIR (España); Investigador Laboratorio de Sociología jurídica de la Universidad de Zaragoza, LSJUZ (España). E-mail: jibanez@direito.up.pt

Published

01-02-2022

How to Cite

Neto, L., Leão, A. C. and Gracia, J. (2022) “Introduction: Vulnerability and caregiving. A human rights approach”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 12(1), pp. 1–5. doi: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1259.