06 August 2024

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

Childhood and Migration Blog Series (Childhood, Law & Policy Network Blog, July 2024) [access]
- All contributions to this series have been posted: "The blogs featured in this series cover topics related to family, belonging, and (lack of) access to resources. They discuss the challenges that children and young people face in new cultural, social, and national contexts, and children’s work (along with the efforts of family members, governmental agencies, and NGOs) to integrate into their new space. The blogs also highlight the resilience of children and young people. Collectively, these blogs illustrate the global relevance of childhood and migration, and advance our understanding of the circumstances, challenges, and opportunities of contemporary childhood(s)."

Reports:

Migrant and Refugee Children Via Mixed Migration Routes in Europe: Accompanied, Unaccompanied and Separated: Overview of Trends - 2023 (UNHCR, UNICEF & IOM, July 2024) [text]

Operational Guidelines on Facilitating Family Reunification for Persons in Need of International Protection (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

La situación de niños, niñas y adolescentes en contexto de movilidad humana en Uruguay y sus derechos: Documento de sistematización (R4V, July 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Asylum spaces as spaces of nonrecognition: the ambiguities of welcoming and educating asylum-seeking children in Norway," Frontiers in Education, 30 July 2024 [open access]

"Children and war – vulnerability and resilience," European Journal of Developmental Psychology, Latest Articles, 30 July 2024 [open access]

"Conducting Research with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors within an Institutional Context: Challenges and Insights," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 7 (June 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Portugal.

"Fammigration Web," Boston Univ. Law Review, vol. 103, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Interviewing Asylum-Seeking Children: A Scoping Review of Research to Inform Best Practices," Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, OnlineFirst, 24 July 2024 [open access]

"Lifetimes of Instability: The Consequences of Excluding Syrian Boys on the Progressive Era US-Mexico Border," Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Narratives from non-citizen former youth in child welfare care fighting crimmigration and deportation," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 8, nos. 1-2 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Canada.

"Politics for Exclusion and Strategies for Inclusion: A Scoping Review of Nordic Family Reunification Policies, Practices, and Impact on Refugees," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 15, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"A qualitative study on the challenges of Afghan child labourers in Tehran," PLoS ONE 19(7): e0306318 (July 2024) [open access]

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