The relevance of the United Nations convention on the rights of the child for United States domestic policy: Welfare reform and children in immigrant families

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 64-91

  Kasper, Jennifer ^a   Wise, Paul H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE REFORM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035726769     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065365     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. Rights of children in the new millennium: Implementing the UN convention on the rights of the child
2. The convention on the rights of the child: Progress and challenges
3. Making governments work for children
4. Let them starve: Government's obligation to children in poverty
5. The reporting process as a catalyst for domestic review and debate
6. Health care for children of immigrant families
7. Immigrant children and their families: Issues for research and policy
8. Health insurance coverage among foreign-born U.S. residents: The impact of race, ethnicity, and length of residence
9. Hunger in legal immigrants in California, Texas, and Illinois
10. Receipt of public assistance by immigrant children and their families: Evidence from the survey of income and program participation
11. Health insurance and access to primary care for children
12. Morbidity and use of ambulatory services among poor and non-poor children
13. The role of Medicaid in ensuring children's access to care
14. Demographic characteristics of persons without a regular source of medical care-selected states, 1995
15. No real progress towards equity: Health of migrants and ethnic minorities on the eve of the year 2000
16. Using medicine to control immigration
17. Europe's unwelcome mat, immigrants face bitter backlash
18. Medicaid for children: Federal mandates, welfare reform, and policy backsliding
19. Ratification of the convention on the rights of the child
20. Welfare reform as a human rights issue
21. Access barriers to health care for Latino children
22. Left out: Immigrants' access to health care and insurance
23. Unfriendly shores: How immigrant children fare in the U.S. health system
24. The convention on the rights of the child: It's time for the United States to ratify
25. Children's health care in the United States and the convention on the rights of the child
26. Human rights and the new public health
27. Assessing the effects of welfare reform policies on reproductive and infant health