An increasing number of families in Norway live transnational lives, causing more complex transnational child protection cases and challenging the ability of the State to safeguard children´s rights. This Ph.D. project focuses on cases where children have their habitual residence in Norway while being at risk in a country which has not ratified the Hague Convention for the protection of Children of 1996.
This socio-legal study analyses the legal obligations of the state according to national and international law, and includes the conduction of qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey in the Child Welfare Services about the implementation of the law. Finally, based upon the findings and considering best practices in other states, the project discusses the need for legal reforms to improve the protection of children in a transnational situation.
Transnational child protection is a new and complex field of research, with a considerable knowledge gap. This project contributes to fill this gap when it comes to possibilities and limits of the transnational protection of children at risk in non-convention countries.
Katarina Sirris Karantonis is responsible for the project. She is a Ph.D. candidate at NOVA, enrolled in the Ph.D. program in social work and social politics at Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a social anthropologist and a lawyer.
