06 April 2021

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (United States)

Unaccompanied Minors in the US and at the US/Mexico Border

Blog posts & press:

4 reasons why migrant children arriving alone to the US create a ‘border crisis’ (The Conversation, March 2021) [text]

Advocating for asylum-seeking children is traumatic, new research finds (WP's Monkey Cage, March 2021) [text]

Biden immigration overhaul would reunite families split up by deportation (The Conversation, March 2021) [text]

Hampered by the Pandemic: Unaccompanied Child Arrivals Increase as Earlier Preparedness Shortfalls Limit the Response (MPI Commentary, March 2021) [text]

"The Humanitarian Challenge of Unaccompanied Children at the Border," The New Yorker, 23 March 2021 [text]

Revising How We Process Children and Families During Border Surges (Niskanen Center, April 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Child Migrants at the Border: The Flores Settlement Agreement and Other Legal Developments (Congressional Research Service, April 2021) [text]

Increasing Numbers of Unaccompanied Alien Children at the Southwest Border (Congressional Research Service, March 2021) [text]

"Seeking Safety and Humanity in the Harshest Immigration Climate in a Generation: A Review of the Literature on the Effects of Separation and Detention on Migrant and Asylum‐Seeking Children and Families in the United States during the Trump Administration," Social Policy Report, vol. 34, no. 1 (March 2021) [free full-text]

Unaccompanied Children’s Arrivals are a Humanitarian Challenge—But a Solvable One (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

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