Adultism and Voting Age Discrimination

Discrimination law in the United States and internationally is much more concerned with matters of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and disability than it is with matters of age, and even when age discrimination is mentioned, it predominantly refers to the elderly and not the young....

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Published in:Harvard human rights journal 2023-01, Vol.36 (2), p.327
Main Author: Wall, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age discrimination
Children
Citizenship
Ethnicity
Intersectionality
Sexuality
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Summary:Discrimination law in the United States and internationally is much more concerned with matters of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and disability than it is with matters of age, and even when age discrimination is mentioned, it predominantly refers to the elderly and not the young. Even the Convention on the Rights of the Child ("CRC') prohibits discrimination on the basis of the above factors but not on the basis of age itself (unless included under "other status"). Legal and scholarly discourse understands children as objects of various forms of intersectional discrimination but rarely in their status as children as such. This Essay argues that the widespread neglect of age discrimination against children is deeply problematic because the issue is not just occasional but systemic.
ISSN:1057-5057
1943-5088