Thematic Focus: Children

Event:

Seminar: The Child in International Refugee Law, Oxford, 21 February 2018 [info]

News & developments:

"Exclusive: U.S. Memo Weakens Guidelines for Protecting Immigrant Children in Court," Reuters, 22 Dec. 2017 [text]

An Unbearable Wait: Lone Children Struggle on Greek Islands (Refugees Deeply, Dec. 2017) [text]

Blog posts & commentary:

Children under Attack in 2017 (Unicef, Dec. 2017) [text via Medium]
 - See also related Guardian article.

International Migration: Shared Commitment to Children’s Rights and Protection (EJIL: Talk Blog, Jan. 2018) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Best Interests, Durable Solutions and Belonging: Policy Discourses Shaping the Futures of Unaccompanied Migrant and Refugee Minors Coming of Age in Europe," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 20 Dec. 2017 [Academia]

"Increasing Understanding for Syrian Refugee Children with Empirical Evidence," Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies:  An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care, vol. 13, no. 1 (2018) [free full-text]
- Introduction to a special issue of the journal.

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Programme Managers, version 3.0 (IFE Core Group, Oct. 2017) [text]

"Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Organisational Policies and Activities during the Refugee Crisis in Lebanon," Maternal & Child Nutrition, Early View, 8 Jan. 2018 [open access]

"‘They don’t look like children’: Child Asylum-seekers, the Dubs Amendment and the Politics of Childhood," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 29 Dec. 2017 [open access]

"Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 21 Dec. 2017 [free full-text]
- Introduction to a special issue of the journal.

Young People in Reception Centres (Finnish Youth Research Society & Network, Jan. 2018) [access]

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- Thematic Focus: Children (19 Dec. 2017)

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