From a sheltered to expulsion item: The transformation of unaccompanied minors’ legal culture
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unaccompanied minors, migrants, legal culture, judicial decision, menores no acompañados, migrantes, cultura jurídica, decisión judicialAbstract
The paper analyses the topic of unaccompanied foreign minor migrants’ (UFMs) access paths in Italy and France. The aim is to describe how Italy and France intercept the UFMs to European coasts, and how they are identified and guided to specific reception facilities by examining the data and available references. The focus is on the legal dimension of the “non-reception system”. These are cases in which states have been convicted of violating children’s rights. How the Western world has tried to institutionalise the concept of children’s rights is closely related to the concept and operating modes of legal principles and “cultures”. In a way, the study of legal culture represents a measure of evolution of laws. In this paper, we highlight the usefulness of analysing the principle of the best interest of child (BIC), introduced in the ideal-typical configuration as a free formulation, which can only be understood based on the interpretation of Courts’ decisions taken on behalf of UFMs.
El artículo analiza el tema de las vías de acceso de los menores extranjeros no acompañados (MENA) en Italia y Francia. El objetivo es describir cómo Italia y Francia interceptan a los MENA hacia las costas europeas, y cómo son identificados y guiados hacia instalaciones de recepción específicas, examinando los datos y las referencias disponibles. La atención se centra en la dimensión jurídica del "sistema de no recepción". Se trata de casos en los que los Estados han sido condenados por violar los derechos de los niños. El modo en que el mundo occidental ha intentado institucionalizar el concepto de los derechos del niño está estrechamente relacionado con el concepto y los modos de funcionamiento de los principios y las "culturas" jurídicas. En cierto modo, el estudio de la cultura jurídica representa una medida de la evolución de las leyes. En este trabajo, destacamos la utilidad de analizar el principio del interés superior del niño, introducido en la configuración ideal-típica como una formulación libre, que sólo puede entenderse a partir de la interpretación de las decisiones de los tribunales tomadas en nombre de los MENA.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1322
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