Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

President Biden’s Keeping Families Together Program Has Begun (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Guía operativa para la cooperación trasnacional en la protección especializada de la niñez en contextos de movilidad humana (UNHCR, IOM & UNICEF, 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the Americas.

Lost and Alone: Addressing the Crisis of Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Post-Earthquakes Northwest Syria and Southern Türkiye (World Vision, Aug. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Management Alert: ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Custody (US DHS Inspector General, Aug. 2024) [text]

- See also related Newsweek article.

Mixed-Status Families and Immigrant Families with Children Continued Avoiding Safety Net Programs in 2023 (Urban Institute, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Journal articles:

"Contested and unheard voices within the asylum framework: participation challenges of unaccompanied minors in Germany and Norway," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 18 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"'Firm but fair'? Migrant children’s rights through dramaturgy and nation branding in Norway and the UK," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:35 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Fostering Prosociality in Refugee Children: An Intervention with Rohingya Children," Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, vol. 89, nos. 1-2 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Bangladesh.

"Intersectional Barriers Faced by Urban Somali Refugee Girls in Uganda," Girlhood Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (March 2024) [ResearchGate]

"Lessons Learnt? War, Exile and Hope among Child Refugees in the Czech Republic," Central and Eastern European Migration Review, vol. 13, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Offering protection to immigrant youths in America: Is asylum or Special Immigrant Juvenile Status truly in the best interest of the child?," International Social Science Journal, Early View, 5 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Rights-based social work as a practice: The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 31 May 2024 [open access]

"Safeguarding migrant and refugee children: a critical contemporary challenge," Frontiers in Political Science, 13 Aug. 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (6 Aug. 2024)