Embodying children’s rights in Italy and Spain: Unmasking some elements of the cultural politics of childhood

This study explores how some aspects of the cultural politics of childhood in Italy and Spain limit, allow or encourage the fuller realisation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, using the complementary voices of 49 participants, including policymakers, leaders of third sector organisations and families in vulnerable situations. Our research contributes to the advancement of the field by contextualising some of the facilitating and challenging factors regarding the enforcement of children's rights, divided into three different levels of analysis: structural factors, political factors and cultural factors.