ABSTRACT
This chapter expands upon the contemporary conceptualisation of childhood discussed in Chapter 2 and identifies additional characteristics that derive from the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other sources of international law. The purpose of these two chapters is to establish a conceptualisation of childhood to be used as a framework for subsequent chapters. The purpose of this is to carry these discussions over to the context of refugee law to analyse to what extent breaches in children’s rights intersect with refugee law and when those breaches may amount to persecution. The structure follows the ‘Three Ps Approach’.
