Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

Born into displacement: Palestinian children’s struggle for rights on World Refugee Day (MPC Blog, June 2024) [text]

Canada’s family-based immigration program for Sudanese fleeing war is too little, too late (The Conversation, June 2024) [text]

Introduction to our 'Childhood and Migration' blog series (Childhood, Law & Policy Network Blog, July 2024) [text]

"Judge partially ends court oversight of migrant children, chipping away at 27-year arrangement," AP News, 28 June 2024 [text]

- Focuses on the US.

The rights of migrant and asylum-seeking children and the impact of news reporting (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2024) [text]

Reports:

Challenges related to the reception of unaccompanied children from Ukraine in Poland - legal representation issues (International Centre for Migration Policy Development, June 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Cruel Indifference: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Before and After Zero Tolerance (UCLA, June 2024) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Guardianship solutions and services for unaccompanied and separated children under temporary protection in the EU: the case of Ukrainian children (International Centre for Migration Policy Development, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ukrainians.

Operational Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support and Child Protection (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Policy on Child Protection (UNHCR, Jan. 2024) [text]

- See also the related "Operational Guidance on Child Protection Core Programme Actions," which "provides a guide on how to operationalize the Child Protection Policy to implement the higher-level principles and standards therein."

Journal articles:

"The Best Interests of the Immigrant Child in Asylum Cases: What Is the Answer?," Univ. of Dayton Law Review, vol. 49, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Child Migrant Workers: The Invisible Children?," Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, vol. 52, no. 2 (Springer 2024) [SSRN]

- Focuses on the US.

"The limitations of Private International Law regarding the protection of unaccompanied migrant children in the European Union," Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Silent suffering: The hidden challenges confronting unaccompanied refugee children through the eyes of social workers," Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 154 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Jordan.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (18 June 2024)