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30 August 2021

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Course: Learn Live: Migration in Literature [info]
- "This four-week online course explores how literature for children and young people depicts themes of migration, displacement, and refugeedom." Course dates are Tuesdays 7, 14, 21 and 28 September 2021. Note that "a limited number of free places are available to people who are asylum-seekers or refugees and for whom the cost of the course is a barrier to attending."

Reports:

Families of Missing Migrants: Their Search for Answers, the Impacts of Loss and Recommendations for Improved Support - Country Report: Zimbabwe (IOM, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

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

Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes the experiences of children on the move (UNICEF, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related UN News story.

Where are they? Searching for missing persons and meeting their families’ needs (Institute for Security Studies & ICRC, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Africa. See also French version.

Journal articles (Europe):

"Exploring Parenting Narratives in Asylum Seeking Populations in Sweden," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 April 2021 [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 23 April 2023, but individual copies may be requested.

"Family separation and everyday (in)security in the lives of unaccompanied refugee minors," OƱati Socio-Legal Series, vol. 11, no. 4 (2021) [open access]
- Focuses on refugees in Finland.

"Fathering Practices in Sweden During the COVID-19: Experiences of Syrian Refugee Fathers," Frontiers in Sociology, 11 Aug. 2021 [open access]

"'Home Means Everything to Me …': A Study of Young Syrian Refugees’ Narratives Constructing Home in Greece," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no 1 (March 2021) [ResearchGate]

"Traversing: familial challenges for escaped North Koreans," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 March 2021 [postprint]
- Focuses on the UK. Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 23 March 2023.

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