Introduction: Human Rights for Children and Youth: Sociocultural Differentiation, Resistance and Unity

We present to the academic community the dossier Human Rights for Children and Youth: Sociocultural Differentiation, Resistance and Unity, specially organized for volume 24 of the magazine Sociological Studies of Children and Youth – SSCY.

The set of chapters presented under the theme of childhood and youth, brought together researchers from three continents – India, Philippines, Sweden, Romania, Scotland, Brazil, Argentina, Jamaica – and configures an important mapping on the condition of childhood and youth in different sociocultural realities.

We structured the dossier from two problematizing keys, being the first fixed in the fundamental rights of children and young people, in which the limits and possibilities of guaranteeing and effecting rights are presented, as well as the ways in which the new generations have resisted the waves of exclusion and marginalization; the second problematizing key is based on the idea of sociocultural differentiation and unity, presented through studies that reflect the similarities and differences in the living conditions of children and young people in different contexts.