17 May 2022

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Blog posts & press:

Healing power of playtime for refugee camp mums and kids (Monash Univ., May 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. See also relating working paper.

Intergenerational costs of allocating refugees randomly (VOX EU, May 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

Report finds 72% increase in unaccompanied minors seeking EU asylum (Jurist, May 2022) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

Cuidado cariñoso y sensible para las niñas y niños que viven en entornos de crisis humanitarias (PAHO, 2022) [text]
- See also English and Arabic versions published in 2020 by WHO.

Guía para los Programas de Acogimiento familiar para Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes Migrantes, Refugiados y Solicitantes de Protección Internacional Separados y no Acompañados en México (RELAF & UNICEF, 2021) [text]

New Research Delves into Successes, Challenges for Two-Generation Programs Serving Immigrant Families (Aspen Institute, Migration Policy Institute & Higher Heights Consulting, May 2022) [access]
- "Two-generation programs that work both with parents and children in immigrant-led households hold the potential to uplift whole families and break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, typically by weaving together high-quality early learning opportunities for children with adult education, workforce training, parenting skills and other supports for adults that can increase family stability." Follow link to access four briefs, 

“Part of my heart was torn away”: What the U.S. Government Owes the Tortured Survivors of Family Separation (Physicians for Human Rights, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Children," Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Islam in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2022) [ResearchGate]

“Remember the Armed Men who Wanted to Kill Mum”: The hidden toll of violence in Al Hol on Syrian and Iraqi Children (Save the Children, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Child labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 26 April 2022 [open access]

"Child marriage among displaced populations: A 2019 study in Kurdistan Region of Iraq," BMC Public Health, 22:796 (April 2022) [open access]

"A community engagement approach for an integrated early childhood development intervention: a case study of an urban informal settlement with Kenyans and embedded refugees," BMC Public Health, 22:711 (April 2022) [open access]

"Companions to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Sweden: experiences of Swedish families," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, EarlyCite, 9 May 2022 [open access]

"Dangerous youngsters or youngsters (not) in danger? Constructions of unaccompanied children by Swedish service providers," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 13 April 2022 [open access]

"'This is not what I want for my children': agency and parenting in Danish asylum centres," European Journal of Public Health, Advance Articles, 25 April 2022 [open access]

Multimedia:

Children on the Run, 10 Feb. 2022 [access]
- Part of the “70 years of Geneva Convention – a reason to celebrate?” lecture series.

Ukraine's Children and The Global Crisis of Child Displacement, 5 May 2022 [access]

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