participation can be defined as a decision making process influencing on life. this term has been used and discussed more or jess by other scholars but recently it has got new versions of application. one of the recent versions can be called children's social participation which came to existence in recent decades following children rights convention. this fact can be brought into account ...

The article draws on the rapidly growing field of citizenship studies to map and explore the dynamics of contemporary occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation. Using two key dimensions of OHS regulation (protection and participation), the author constructs four ideal types of worker citizenship (market, public, private industrial, and public industrial citizens). Historically, workers ha...

Citizenship is both a contentious and contested struggle about the creation of rights, duties, and opportunities. Feminist practices and debates can clarify the meaning of citizenship. This is because the form of feminist practices, characterized by an ongoing struggle, and the content of feminist debates, focusing on gender and other inequalities, recognition of different voices, and critiques...

What is actually intended by the term ‘participation’ as it is described by the UNCRC? Since it excludes economic and political rights, it goes only a single step toward integrating children into civil society as bearers of full rights who share the duties and responsibilities that are often considered central to citizenship. This essay briefly examines a range of ideas that include philosophic...

In Bangladesh a commonly accepted notion of citizenship endowed with certain minimum basic rights does not exist. Although a generalised concept of citizenship has been formally articulated, i.e. in the constitution, and has the appearance of being all-inclusive, this is more in form than in content and reality. The meanings/concepts of citizenship at the level of peoples lived realities are no...

General health conditions as well as quality of life must urgently be improved in developing countries. This improvement could be achieved, at least in part, by the practice of citizenship. Education exerts a special role in citizenship development. In this regard, teachers in school are of great importance, since they influence and inspire the students beyond the formal curricula. The purpose ...

This paper begins with a reminder of the constitutional and institutional frameworks of allegiances, identification and citizenship rights. Then it argues that there are grounds for questioning the customary conceptual and political overlap between nationality and citizenship. Some decoupling has taken place in the EU and the paper considers competing assessments as to how well these specific s...