Child Rights and Displacement in East Africa: Agency and Spatial Justice in Planning Policy

This book explores the challenges of resettlement in East Africa, where half of those displaced are children, and investigates how child-friendly planning approaches can promote child rights in the context of resettlement. It uses spatial justice theory and a rights-based assessment of land-use policies to analyze case studies from over a decade of field research in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya.

Format: Hardback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book delves into the complexities of resettlement in East Africa, where half of those displaced are children. The challenges created by displacement and resettlement are often approached from an adult-centric perspective by planners, humanitarian and development experts. However, the spatial injustice of displacement and resettlement, the agency of children, and the application of tools such as the Child Participatory Vulnerability Index (CPVI) are often overlooked, siloed, or discounted. This book aims to address this gap by employing a CPVI and a rights-based assessment of land-use policies to investigate resettlement due to conflict and settlement in northern Uganda, floods due to climate change in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and urban-to-rural migration of children due to the AIDS pandemic in Western Kenya.

Over a decade of field research is integrated with examples from applied planning projects and policy development in the East Africa region. Through the lens of spatial justice theory, this book showcases how child-friendly planning approaches can positively promote child rights within the context of resettlement.

Providing valuable insights on how to enact child-friendly planning in informal settlements, refugee camps, and displacement camps, this book appeals to planning and development professionals, as well as researchers across the fields of children's rights, Development Studies, Planning, and African Studies.

Weight: 530g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032035321