11 November 2021

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Opportunity:

CFP: Family and Forced Migration in Latin America, Proposed panel for IASFM19 Conference, 1-5 August 2022 [info]
- Please submit abstracts by 15 December 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Foreign Unaccompanied Minors in Street Situation: From “Dangerous Children” to Children in Danger (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Spain.

How the Netherlands, France and the UK are leaving children stranded at risk of statelessness in Iraq and Syria (ENS Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Internally displaced children in Nigeria need more protection from the state (The Conversation, Oct. 2021) [text]

Search and rescue: “They describe Libya as hell” (MSF, Oct. 2021) [text]

UNHCR calls on states to expedite family reunification procedures for Afghan refugees (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text]

New open access book:

Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities
 (Routledge, 2021) [open access]
- "Displacement for adolescents comes with huge disruption to their education and employment prospects, as well as increased risks of poor psychosocial outcomes and sexual and gender-based violence for girls. Considering these intersectional vulnerabilities throughout, this book explores the experiences of adolescents from refugee, internally displaced persons and stateless communities in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Rwanda. Drawing on innovative mixed-methods research, the book investigates adolescent capabilities, including education, health and nutrition, freedom from violence and bodily integrity, psychosocial wellbeing, voice and agency, and economic empowerment."

Reports & journal articles:

The Blueprint Partnership in Action: Five Accelerators for Refugee Inclusion (UNHCR & UNICEF, Oct. 2021) [text]

Children and Families Seeking Asylum in the UK, CASEbrief, no. 41 (LSE, Oct. 2021) [text]

"The experiences of children and adolescents undergoing forced separation from their parents during migration: A systematic review," Health and Social Care, Early View, 7 Oct. 2021 [free full-text]

Families of Missing Migrants: Their Search for Answers and the Impacts of Loss - Lessons Across Four Countries (IOM, Sept. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related policy briefing and UN News story.

Guideline on Assessing and Determining the Best Interests of Children Applying for International Protection, Refugee and Migrant in Kosovo (Govt. of Kosovo, 2021) [text]

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XI, no. 2 (July-Sept. 2021) [full-text]
- This issue "focuses on children in the current Central America–Mexico–United States context. It identifies critical blind spots of child-related migration data and sheds light on aspects that have gotten lost in the noise generated by graphic depictions of child migration in the Central America–Mexico–United States pathway."

*"Promoting Voice and Agency Among Forcibly Displaced Children and Adolescents: Participatory Approaches to Practice in Conflict-Affected Settings," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 9, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

The Risks of "In-country" Processing: An Assessment of the US Central American Minors Program (World Refugee & Migration Council, Oct. 2021) [text]

Walking into the Eye of the Storm: How the climate crisis is driving child migration and displacement (Save the Children, Oct. 2021) [text]

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