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Margrite KALVERBOER
Margrite Kalverboer is a Professor of Child, Pedagogy and Migration
Law. She studied law and clinical child and adolescent studies at the
University of Groningen. In 1996 she gained a PhD with research on
the way that educational and care problems are reported to the Child
Care and Protection Board Northern Division. From 1996 to 2002 she
was a behavioural scientist and head of Care at the Het Poortje young
offen-ders’ institution in Groningen. After that she became university
reader in the Youth Care section of the department of Special Needs
Education and Youth Care of the University of Groningen. As a lawyer and
special needs expert, Kalverboer is trying to expand the understanding
between those two worlds. Her research concentrates, inter alia, on the
explanation and implementation of the provisions of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child from a pedagogical perspective, in order
to clarify the legal procedures that can be faced by children in the
Netherlands and abroad. She is project leader of the Centre for Children,
Migration and Law and of the research project “Interests of the Child in
Immigration Law and Policy”.

Anne-Marie DIEU
Anne-Marie Dieu est Licenciée en Sciences Politiques et Docteure en
Socio-logie. Après une carrière dans le milieu universitaire et dans
l’associatif, elle a rejoint l’Observatoire de l’enfance, de la jeunesse et
de l’aide à la jeunesse en 2011 en tant que directrice de recherches.
Elle supervise ou mène différentes recherches portant sur les enfants
et les jeunes, dans lesquelles leur point de vue est sollicité, via des
méthodes qualitatives ou quantitatives.   Elle a également mené des
évaluations de politiques publiques destinées aux enfants et aux jeunes. 

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