Background In this article I set out to critically explore how campaigning for the rights of “children on the move” impacts on paternalism in humanitarianism. My aim was to trace the development of the notion of children on the move, the productive power that permeates it, and the way this translates into paternalism in humanitarianism. Methods I applied Foucauldian discourse analysis to textual data gathered from relevant publications. I mainly collected these texts from the Destination Unknown campaign, coordinated by Terre des Hommes, which serves as the case study for this research. In addition, I conducted and interview with a key Destination Unknown official in order to gather insights on the actual running of the campaign. I analysed the data through an existing conceptual framework informed by a Foucauldian perspective on power and paternalism, where the presence of power in humanitarianism is explained through the notion of paternalism. Results Using this method, I describe the two main features of power within the field of children on the move: the power to shape reality through the construction of a relatively new concept and the power of moral and expert authority. Conclusions In this article I show that these features of power can be explained in humanitarianism through the notion of paternalism, as exhibited by the various acts of imposition in the (supposed) best interests of the child. This research is a critique, rather than a criticism, of the efforts to promote the rights of children on the move, and shows how paternalism is an inherent ingredient of humanitarianism.
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机译：背景信息在本文中，我着眼于批判性地探索为“流动儿童”的权利开展运动如何对人道主义中的家长制产生影响。我的目的是追踪儿童在流动中的观念的发展，渗透其中的生产力以及在人道主义中将其转变成家长式作风的方式。方法我对来自相关出版物的文本数据进行了Foucauldian话语分析。我主要是在Terre des Hommes的协调下，从Destination Unknown运动中收集这些文本的，该运动是本研究的案例研究。此外，我进行了一次重要的“目的地未知”官员的采访并采访了他，以收集对竞选活动实际运行的见解。我通过现有的概念框架对数据进行了分析，该框架以福柯关于权力和家长制的观点为基础，在人道主义中，通过家长制的概念来解释人道主义中权力的存在。结果我使用这种方法描述了儿童在移动领域中的权力的两个主要特征：通过构建相对较新的概念来塑造现实的权力以及道德和专家权威的权力。结论在本文中，我表明，权力的这些特征可以通过家长式的概念在人道主义中得到解释，如强加于儿童（假定）儿童最大利益的各种行为所体现的那样。这项研究是对促进流动儿童权利的努力的批评而不是批评，并且表明了家长式教育是人道主义的内在组成部分。
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