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Not Every Child Matters: the UK's Expulsion of British Citizens

Not Every Child Matters: the UK's Expulsion of British Citizens Not Every Child Matters: the UK’s Expulsion of British Citizens CAROLINE SAWYER Department of Law, Oxford Brookes University Expelling our British Children A country’s expulsion of its own citizens is usually considered a bad thing, or even a breach of customary international law, and likely to excite con- cern and protest. Poor treatment of a country’s own children is likewise generally deprecated, perhaps especially if it has particular impact on eth- nic minorities. The current publicity surrounding government policy in the UK suggests that child citizens are particularly nurtured, so as to ensure that the children that will make up the nation’s next generation have a good start. Policies on social exclusion mean that those from relatively deprived communities, which include some of the country’s ethnic minorities, attract particular concern. But the UK also supports a practice of expelling UK- British children, almost inevitably those with a non-European heritage, and the policy inspires little understanding or concern. The reason for that appears to be that most people do not know and would not believe that it occurs. In making this argument, it can be difficult to shift a listener’s assumption that the UK would not expel its own http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Children's Rights Brill

Not Every Child Matters: the UK's Expulsion of British Citizens

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Brill
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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0927-5568
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1571-8182
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10.1163/157181806777922720
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Not Every Child Matters: the UK’s Expulsion of British Citizens CAROLINE SAWYER Department of Law, Oxford Brookes University Expelling our British Children A country’s expulsion of its own citizens is usually considered a bad thing, or even a breach of customary international law, and likely to excite con- cern and protest. Poor treatment of a country’s own children is likewise generally deprecated, perhaps especially if it has particular impact on eth- nic minorities. The current publicity surrounding government policy in the UK suggests that child citizens are particularly nurtured, so as to ensure that the children that will make up the nation’s next generation have a good start. Policies on social exclusion mean that those from relatively deprived communities, which include some of the country’s ethnic minorities, attract particular concern. But the UK also supports a practice of expelling UK- British children, almost inevitably those with a non-European heritage, and the policy inspires little understanding or concern. The reason for that appears to be that most people do not know and would not believe that it occurs. In making this argument, it can be difficult to shift a listener’s assumption that the UK would not expel its own

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The International Journal of Children's Rights – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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