Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Event:

Expert workshop: “Children on the Move: Building Migration Data Capacities, Rabat, 20-22 March 2019 [info]

Publications:

"C'est bien qu'on nous écoute": Intérêt Supérieur, Accès à une Protection et à une Solution Durable -  Expériences et Points de Vue d'Enfants Non Accompagnés Etrangers en France (UNHCR, Dec. 2018) [text]

"Children and Armed Conflict: Looking at the Future and Learning from the Past," Third World Quarterly, 21 Jan. 2019 [open access]

"Children on the Move in Europe: A Narrative Review of the Evidence on the Health Risks, Health Needs and Health Policy for Asylum Seeking, Refugee and Undocumented Children," BMJ Paediatrics Open, vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 2019) [open access]

"Displacement, Deprivation and Hard Work among Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon," BMJ Global Health, vol. 4, no. 1 (Feb. 2019) [open access]

"Effects of Armed Conflict on Child Health and Development: A Systematic Review," PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210071 (Jan. 2019) [open access]

Family Migration (Migration Data Portal, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Last 4 Children Detained on Nauru are Heading to the U.S.," NPR, 4 Feb. 2019 [text]

When Unaccompanied Young Asylum Seekers Turn 18, Many Face an Immigration Cliff Edge (The Conversation, Feb. 2019) [text]

United States:

"An Asylum Seeker’s Quest to Get Her Toddler Back," New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2019 [text]

Border Patrol Agents Dealt with More Children under Pres. Bush (CATO at Liberty Blog, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Finding All Migrant Children Separated from Their Families May be Impossible, Feds Say," NBC News, 2 Feb. 2019 [text]

"Rights Disappear When US Policy Engages Children as Weapons of Deterrence," AMA Journal of Ethics, vol. 21, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

Separated Children Placed in Office of Refugee Resettlement Care (HHS Office of Inspector General, Jan. 2019) [text]
- See also related news article in the ABA Journal entitled "US can’t count or track all separated immigrant children, but it’s thousands more than reported," CNN story and PBS Newshour report.

State of the Union 2019: Trump Misses the Real Border Crisis (Vox, Feb. 2019) [text]

*Unaccompanied Children: Agency Efforts to Identify and Reunify Children Separated from Parents at the Border (Government Accounting Office, Feb. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

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