Child safety is a well investigated field of research, as is the field of children’s citizenship. This study explores the intersection between these two areas. The aim of the study is to explore children’s lived citizenship from their everyday knowledge about injury risks and safety. The idea of "lived citizenship" refers to how children understand and negotiate rights and responsibilities, and to how they actually practice their citizenship in their daily lives. In the study, a concept of citizenship is used, defining it as composed of the following dimensions: rights, responsibilities, participation, identity, membership, equal status, respect, and recognition. In the study children in grades 2, 5 and 8 participated in focus group interviews. The results of the study suggest that, although the children had good awareness of risk and safety, they regarded risk as something largely positive, connecting it with opportunities for challenges and exciting adventures. School rules and also traffic rules were frequently called into question by the children, even though they were very well aware of the potential physical or legal consequences. The rules at the children’s sports clubs, in contrast, were not challenged. Talk of injury risks and safety may be understood as individual and collective identity work. When children told stories about injuries and accidents, they were also telling stories about themselves, who they were, and where they belonged. Being adventurous and daring gave status in the groups for both girls and boys.  Drawing on the results an “action zone,” as an analytical concept is suggested. The action zone is about the physical and symbolic dynamic space where children can move and act independently. Some features of the action zone are proposed in terms of boundaries, boundary guards, (rules, norms and authorities), negotiation, boundary crossing, identity, self-management and situated agency. I argue that the concept puts focus on children’s lived citizenship as a whole and that the physical aspect of citizenship is emphasized. / Barnsäkerhet och barns medborgarskap är två områden som var för sig är väl undersökta. Den här avhandlingen tar sitt avstamp i gränssnittet mellan dem, ett inte lika utforskat område. I studien samtalar barn mellan åtta och femton år i fokusgrupper om olycksrisker och säkerhet. Utifrån deras vardagskunskaper om dessa ämnen dras slutsatser om gemensamma föreställningar om levt medborgarskap. Studien visar att risker och olyckor enligt barnen är en del av livet, något som gör det roligare. Tal om säkerhet har således liten relevans i barnens tillvaro. Säkerhetsregler i skolan men också i trafiken ifrågasätts av barnen, trots att de är väl medvetna om såväl risker som tänkbara påföljder. I de idrottsföre­ningar som barnen tillhör, ifrågasätts regler däremot över huvud taget inte. Resultaten visar vidare att barn och föräldrar ofta har nått ett samförstånd runt regler och att barnen i stor utsträckning tar ett eget ansvar. När det gäller delaktighet i skolan, så finns möjligheter för barnen att göra sig hörda i råd av olika slag, även om inflytandet i realiteten tycks vara begränsat. Barnens tal om olycksrisker och säkerhet kan förstås som ett uttryck för identitetsskapande, visar studien. Att vara någon som tar risker ger status i kamratgruppen, för såväl flickor som pojkar. Utifrån resultaten föreslås aktionszon som ett begrepp för att studera barns levda medborgarskap. Aktionszonen avser det dynamiska, fysiska och symboliska utrymme barn har, i tid och rum, att fritt röra sig i och agera självständigt.

Detta är en kvalitativ studie om hur socialsekreterare arbetar med barnperspektivet i mötet med hemlösa barn. Genom fyra semi-strukturerade intervjuer med anställda på socialtjänstens boendeenhet undersöks hur handläggaren beskriver att hen arbetar med barnperspektivet utifrån delvis Barnkonventionen men även hur handläggaren tillgodoser barns rättigheter och medborgarskap. Det insamlade materialet kommer analyseras med hjälp av Theory of citizenship (Lister 2008) men även barndomssociologiska begrepp human being och human becoming samt agency (Qvortrup 1990; Lee 2001). Som ett komplement används Annika Staafs (2011) definition av rättssäkerhet för att utöka förståelsen för barns medborgarskap och rättssäkerhet. Resultatet visar på bristande arbete med barns rättigheter samt att organisationens struktur har betydelse för vilka möjligheter handläggaren har att tillgodose barns rättigheter och säkra barns medborgarskap. I den avslutande diskussionen tas upp att socialsekreterarnas arbetsmiljö leder till att barn inte får komma till tals i den utsträckning som anses vara nödvändigt samt att en väg framåt i arbetet med barns rättigheter vore att Barnkonventionen blir svensk lag. Detta skulle medföra att Konventionen om barns rättigheter får en starkare ställning i Sverige. / This is a qualitative study of how social workers work with the children's perspective in the meeting with homeless children. This will be investigated through four semi-structured interviews with employees at the social housing unit. The purpose of the study is to investigate how the practitioner describes how they work with the child perspective based partly on the Children's Convention, but also investigate how the prosecutor caters for children's rights and citizenship. The collected material will be analysed using Theory of citizenship (Lister 2008), but also childhood sociological concepts human being and human becoming as well as agency (Qvortrup 1990; Lee 2001). As a complement, Annika Staaf's (2011) definition of legal certainty is used to expand the understanding of children's citizenship and legal certainty. The result shows the lack of work with children's rights, and the structure of the organization is important for the ability of the prosecutor to meet children's rights and secure children's citizenship. In the final discussion it is stated that the social security staff's working environment means that children can not be heard in so far as is considered necessary, and that a way forward in the work on children's rights would be that the Children's Convention becomes Swedish law. This would mean that the Convention on the Rights of the Child gained a stronger position in Sweden.

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2018-03-22T21:31:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Marcia Regina Mathias dos Guimarães Brito.pdf: 1411632 bytes, checksum: f86c6d1ccb3fd7d11f3be82167ea127f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2018-04-17T14:03:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Marcia Regina Mathias dos Guimarães Brito.pdf: 1411632 bytes, checksum: f86c6d1ccb3fd7d11f3be82167ea127f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-17T14:03:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Marcia Regina Mathias dos Guimarães Brito.pdf: 1411632 bytes, checksum: f86c6d1ccb3fd7d11f3be82167ea127f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-11 / Esta dissertação integra um projeto coletivo de pesquisas do Grupo de Pesquisa “Infância e Juventude Contemporânea” (GEIJC), da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), campus de Rondonópolis, que vem investigando, entre outros temas, os discursos sobre os direitos da criança e adolescente. Nosso objetivo é descrever e interpretar discursos de professores(as) da rede pública do Ensino Fundamental, da cidade de Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, sobre como entendem e inserem no seu fazer pedagógico o direito da criança e do adolescente ao respeito, à liberdade e à participação. Utilizamos, na condução desta pesquisa, o método da Hermenêutica de Profundidade (HP) proposto por Thompson (2007), que é composto por três fases: a) análise do contexto sócio-histórico; b) análise formal ou discursiva e c) interpretação/reinterpretação. Para tanto, seguimos o percurso da contextualização da legislação sobre os Direitos da Criança, desde os debates em âmbito internacional e nacional, com a Declaração de Genebra (1924), a Declaração dos Direitos da Criança (1959), a Convenção Internacional sobre os Direitos da Criança (1989), a Constituição Federal (Brasil, 1988) e o Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente – ECA (1990). Um dos referenciais teóricos, inspirador desse trabalho, é o autor Jannuz Korczak (1872-1942) que deixou expresso, em suas obras, como entendia o respeito que deveria ser conferido às crianças, bem como sua contestação ao baixo status moral atribuído, até então, às crianças, num mundo concebido e construído pelos adultos. Além de Korczak, adotamos os aportes teóricos dos estudos sociais da infância, tais como Qvortrup (2010), Pinto e Sarmento (1997), Corsaro (2011), Soares (1997) entre outros. Foram entrevistadas três professoras da rede pública de ensino e os dados obtidos indicam que as professoras relacionam o direito ao respeito, participação e liberdade ao direito que a criança tem ao aprendizado e que, embora haja um reconhecimento da importância do direito das crianças em serem respeitadas, a visualização e materialização desse direito no contexto escolar ainda é incipiente. / This paper is part of a collective research project of the Contemporary Infancy and Youth Group (GEIJC, in Portuguese), at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), municipality of Rondonópolis campus, which has researched, among other topics, discourses on children’s and adolescents’ Rights. It aims at describing and interpreting public elementary school teachers’ discourses about their understanding of and how they deal with children’s and adolescents’ rights towards respect, freedom and participation during their classes. The Profound Hermeneutics method (PH) proposed by Thompson (2007), which is made up with three phases (socio-historical content analysis, formal or discursive analysis, and [re]interpretation), was at use. Thus, the contextualization of the law over children’s rights timeline was followed, from (inter)national debates, leading to Geneva Declaration (1924), Declaration of the Rights of the Children (1959), Federal Constitution (Brazil, 1988), International Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), and the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA, in Portuguese, 1990). One of the theoretical backgrounds that inspired this paper is by Janusz Korczak (1878-1942), who expressed his understand on children’s rights as well as his view against children’s role in a world of grownups. Besides Korczak, it is based on social studies on infancy by Qvortrup (2010), Pinto and Sarmento (1997), Corsaro (2011), Soares (1997), among others. Three public school teachers were interviewed and the data collected show that they relate right to respect, participation and freedom that children have regarding the learning process and that, although there is such acknowledgment of the importance of respecting children’s rights, seeing and feeling such right at schools is still something incipient.