17 March 2021

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Blog posts & press:

72 Million Children are at Risk for Sexual Violence in Conflict. What Can Be Done? (PRIO Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

How the Biden Administration Should Respond to the Arrival of Unaccompanied Children (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2021) [text]

Joint communiqué: Putting children’s rights at the heart of the Global Compact for Migration’s implementation in Asia-Pacific (March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Other Family Separation Crisis (The Asylumist Blog, March 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

10 Years of War in Syria: The Lasting Impact of a Childhood Without Peace (International Rescue Committee, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Anywhere But Syria: How 10 Years of Conflict Left Syria’s Displaced Children Without a Sense of Home (Save the Children, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Children in Migration: Report on the state of implementation in 2019 of the 2017 Communication on the protection of children in migration (European Migration Network, March 2021) [text]
- See also related Inform and Flash.

A Decade of Loss: Syria's Youth after 10 years of crisis (ICRC, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Impact of Cash Transfers on Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon, Working Paper, no. 1457 (Economic Research Forum, Feb. 2021) [text]

Policy Recommendations to Improve the Protection and Care for Unaccompanied Children (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on the US.

"Problematising separated children: a policy analysis of the UK ‘Safeguarding Strategy: Unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children’," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 3 (2021) [postprint]

"Promoting well-being in refugee children: An exploratory controlled trial of a positive psychology intervention delivered in Greek refugee camps," Development and Psychopathology, vol. 33, no. 1 (Feb. 2021) [postprint]

Refugee and Migrant Children in Europe: Accompanied, Unaccompanied and Separated: Overview of Trends (January-June 2020) (UNHCR, UNICEF & IOM, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb] 

Too High a Price to Pay: The Cost of Conflict for Syria's Children (World Vision, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Unaccompanied Girls with Precarious Odds," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 3 March 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden.

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