Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Opportunity:

CFP: Cross-Border Families under Covid-19, 22-23 June 2021 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 28 February 2021.

Blogs posts & press:

Father-Son Separation at US Border Illustrates Lasting Harm That Demands Redress (Just Security Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Starting Early to Address Migration-Related Trauma (REACH@Harvard Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

UNHCR welcomes Mexico’s reforms to protect rights of child refugees and asylum-seekers (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

‘Like I’m Drowning’: Children and Families Sent to Harm by the US ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program (Human Rights Watch, Stanford University & Willamette University, Jan. 2021) [text]

"Prevalence of Aggression in Displaced Syrian Adolescents Attending Afternoon Public Schools in Beirut," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 3 March 2019 [ResearchGate]

Review of the Department of Justice’s Planning and Implementation of Its Zero Tolerance Policy and Its Coordination with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related Lawfare blog post and Human Rights Watch news story.

Safe Processing and Transport of Arriving Unaccompanied Children in a Public Health Emergency (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Unaccompanied Children, UC Care Providers, and Planning for the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

“Venezuelan Unaccompanied Children in Brazil: Legal Landscape, Barriers to Protection, and the Enhanced Role of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees,” Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 1 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 112.

What Works to Protect Children on the Move: Rapid Evidence Assessment (ODI et al., July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related ODI blog post.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (18 Dec. 2020)