27 April 2023

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

*Expansion of Central American Minors Program Offers New Opportunities for Families to Reunite (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Kidnapped Future: Ukrainian Minor Refugees in Russia (MPI Blog, April 2023) [text]

U.S. Anti‐​Asylum Policy Forces Migrant Kids to Come Alone Without Parents (Cato at Liberty Blog, March 2023) [text]

Reports:

Disbelieved and denied: Children seeking asylum wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office (Helen Bamber Foundation, Humans for Rights Network & Asylum Aid, April 2023) [text]

Durable Solutions for Children: Checklist for child-sensitive national and local durable solutions strategies to address internal displacement (Plan International, et al., March 2023) [text]

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

A Path to Meeting the Medical and Mental Health Needs of Unaccompanied Children in U.S. Communities (Migration Policy Institute, April 2023) [text]

Russia’s war on Ukraine: Forcibly displaced Ukrainian children (European Parliament, April 2023) [text]

*“We Must Provide a Family, Not Rebuild Orphanages”: The Consequences of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine for Children in Ukrainian Residential Institutions (Human Rights Watch, March 2023) [text]

Where We Stand: A 20-Year Retrospective on the Unaccompanied Children’s Program in the United States (USCRI, April 2023) [access]
- Follow link for the complete publication, access to individual chapters and additional resources.

Winning the Game: How Sport for Development supports the psychological well-being of adolescent refugees - A case study from Greece (UNICEF, 2023) [access]
- Follow link for report and executive summary.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Changes in life satisfaction among unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee minors who participated in teaching recovery techniques (TRT)," Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 17:50 (April 2023) [open access]
- Focuses on Norway.

"Children's emotional and behavioral response following a migration: a scoping review," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 7 (2023) [open access]

"The Kindertransport Everyday: The Complexities of Domestic Space for Child Refugees," Genealogy, vol. 7, no. 2 (April 2023) [open access]

"The Persistent, Pernicious Use of Pushbacks against Children and Adults in Search of Safety," Laws, vol. 12, no. 3 (April 2023) [open access]

"Political Strategies of Self-representation: The Case of Young Afghan Migrants in Sweden," Chapter in The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation (Springer, March 2023) [open access]

*UPDATED

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