Childhood, migration and rights: contributions to an anthropological approach

The aim of this essay is to present conceptualizations about migrant children's rights in Argentina. The analysis is aimed at exploring categories and central discussions on national and regional regulations, documents from various agencies, and academic research. The first sections of the paper provide a systematization of the regional and national contexts in which these discourses are institutionalized, including the challenges and demands that are built from rights approaches. Subsequently, it is proposed to consider other dimensions of analysis to conceptualize migrant children regarding policies towards families, different childhoods, and tensions implicit in the dynamics of particularization of rights holders. Thereby it achieves to introduce problematizations and levels of analysis from anthropology, on an issue traversed by the regulatory approach.