Special Focus on Age Discrimination in Forced Migration Law, Policy, and Practice

Christina Clark-Kazak

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.40424

Special Focus on Age Discrimination in Forced Migration Law, Policy, and Practice

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Christina Clark-Kazak Associate Professor, Glendon College and Centre for Refugee Studies, York University

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https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40424

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age, age discrimination, social age, forced migration, law, policy

Abstract

This special focus of Refuge highlights the widespread but under-researched occurrence of age discrimination in forced migration law, policy, and practice. Using a conceptual lens of social age, authors analyze the ways in which people in situations of forced migration are treated differently on the basis of chronological age, biological development, and family status. By framing this differential treatment as discrimination, this special focus approaches age as an equity issue. Such an approach differentiates the articles presented here from other recent scholarship on specific age groups, which is framed largely in terms of their vulnerabilities and needs. This special focus is intended to stimulate further research and activism on age discrimination in all its forms in varying contexts of forced migration.

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Author Biography

Christina Clark-Kazak, Associate Professor, Glendon College and Centre for Refugee Studies, York University

Christina Clark-Kazak is associate professor in International Studies at Glendon College, York University and resident faculty at the Centre for Refugee Studies. She may be contacted at cclark-kazak@glendon.yorku.ca.

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2016-11-23

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Clark-Kazak, C. (2016). Special Focus on Age Discrimination in Forced Migration Law, Policy, and Practice. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 32(3), 3–7. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40424

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Vol. 32 No. 3 (2016): General Issue, with Special Focus on Age Discrimination in Forced Migration Law, Policy and Practice

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Introduction

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