Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Blog posts & media:

"'Australia is a bigger cage': The Ongoing Trauma of Nauru's Child Refugees," The Guardian, 25 Aug. 2019 [text]

Britain Remembers the Kindertransport But is in Danger of Forgetting Its Lessons (The Conversation, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Home Office Planning to End Family Reunion for Children after Brexit," The Guardian, 1 Sept. 2019 [text]

Immigrant Children with Cancer, HIV, Cerebral Palsy Threatened with Deportation (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

Three Years On, Unaccompanied Minors Still in Legal Limbo (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]
- Focuses on France, Italy and the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

Care Provider Facilities Described Challenges Addressing Mental Health Needs of Children in HHS Custody (U.S. HHS Office of Inspector General, Sept. 2019) [text]
- See also related BuzzFeed News article.

Exclus et Traumatisés: La Situation des Mineurs Non Accompagnés en France (MSF, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Families Fleeing: Family Membership as a Basis for Asylum," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3 (Forthcoming, 2019) [preprint]

No Family Torn Apart: Challenges refugees face securing family reunification in the Netherlands and recommendations for improvements (UNHCR, Sept. 2019) [text]

"The Rights of Refugee Children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child," Laws, vol. 8, no. 3 (Aug. 2019) [open access]

"Second Generation from Refugee Backgrounds in Europe," Comparative Migration Studies, 7:40 (Dec. 2019) [open access]

Subject to Whim: The Treatment of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the French Hautes-Alpes (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2019) [text]
- A French version is also available.

Vers une Protection Renforcée des Enfants Non Accompagnés et Séparés en Belgique: État des lieux et recommandations (UNHCR, April 2019) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (U.S.) (23 Aug. 2019)

Tagged Publications.