30 March 2023

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Age Assessments of Young Asylum Seekers in the UK: from a ‘fact’-based to a human rights-based approach (RLI Blog, March 2023) [text]

High rates of physical and mental health problems found in children held in detention on Nauru: study (UNSW News, March 2023) [text]
- Note: This particular study is not freely available. However, another recently published journal article that focuses on the same issue and is referenced below. 

"‘No place for a child to be’: Foreigners remain stuck in Syria’s war-on-terror camps," The New Humanitarian, 9 March 2023 [text]

New open access book:

Forced Migration and Separated Families: Everyday Insecurities and Transnational Strategies
(Springer, March 2023) [open access]
- "This open access book examines the impacts and experiences of family separation on forced migrants and their transnational families. On the one hand, it investigates how people with a forced migration background in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America experience separation from their families, and on the other, how family and kin in the countries of origin or transit are impacted by the often precarious circumstances of their family members in receiving countries. In particular, this book provides new knowledge on the nexus between transnational family separation, forced migration, and everyday (in)security."

Reports:

Fast, Not Fair: How Expedited Processes Harm Immigrant Children Seeking Protection (Young Center & First Focus, March 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related press release.

Mixed Blessing: Guatemalan Experiences under the New Central American Minor’s Program (Refugees International, March 2023) [text]

Where We Stand: A 20-Year Retrospective of the Unaccompanied Children’s Program in the United States (US Comm. for Refugees & Immigrants, In Process) [info]
- Chapter 1: The Transfer
Chapter 2: The Flores Saga
- Chapter 3: Protections for Unaccompanied Children in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA)
- Chapter 4, Part 1: Home Studies and Post–Release Services for Unaccompanied Children
Chapter 4, Part 2: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
Chapter 5: Haiti Earthquake

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