Migrations and girl child rights in Europe. An anthropological perspective for agenda 2030 SDG5 implementation

Abstract

International legal standards for children’s rights and Girl Child Rights, strengthened by the global commitment of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its SDG5 on gender equality set, as a priority, the elimination of all forms of violence against girl children and girl adolescents. Among them, harmful traditional practices, including child, forced and early marriage and female genital mutilations (FGMs), tend to re-produce, increasingly, in European countries, in connection to migration processes and the extensión of habitats of meaning, therefore, representing a new challenge for States, receiving significant migration flows. In this framework, our anthropology of implementation work, by a gendered qualitative approach, aims at shedding light on this topic, proposing the case of France, in comparison to the on-going debate in other European countries and reflecting on the role of institutions and the close relationship between culture and legislation for implementation.