The listening to children and young people has been given a prominent role in today’s politics. However, there are good reasons to reflect more closely on the relationship between collective representation and self-organized political participation by children and youth to claim rights. The overall purpose of this article is to scrutinize how established political representation of children and youth relates to young people's own representative claims, and what theoretical issues this give rise to. By comparing the Swedish Children's Ombudsman´s annual reports with young Afghans political protests for a right to stay in Sweden, this article points to how right claims of different actors expose problematic tensions in how we conceive of political representation of young migrants in a time of restrictive migration politics.