09 February 2025

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

Family Reunification: An Unmet Human Right in Mexico’s Migration Policy = La reunificación familiar: un derecho humano pendiente en la política migratoria de México (Asylum Access, Jan. 2025) [access]

*"ICE Enforcement Official Tapped to Lead Unaccompanied Migrant Children Office, Triggering Alarms," ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2025 [text]

Lives at risk: Migrant children stranded at the Mexico-United States border and the lack of international protection (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]
- Also in Spanish.

Reports & book chapters:

The Effects of Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programs on the Socio-emotional Well-being of Children and Caregivers in Refugee and Forced Displacement Settings, Education Working Paper, no. 6 (World Bank, Nov. 2024; posted Feb. 2025) [text]

"Family generational relations in the context of refuge and asylum: Methodological reflections on the investigation of doing and displaying family," Chapter in Practicing the Family: The Doing and Making of Family In, With and Through Social Work and Education (transcript, Jan. 2025) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 245.

Refugee Family Reunion Project: Workshop Report (King's College London, Feb. 2025) [access]
- Focuses on the UK.

Reuniting Families: A Path Forward for Aotearoa New Zealand (Univ. of Auckland & NZ Red Cross, Jan. 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

"Adverse childhood experiences, social networks and help-seeking experiences of African-background refugee children in Australia: Towards a refugee children’s Network-Episode Model," Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 170 (March 2025) [open access]

"Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico," Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 70 (2025) [open access]

"Exploring the Resettling Experiences of Refugee Families in Norway Through the Lens of Children and Their Parents," Child & Family Social Work, Early View, 29 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"Family Ties: Vatican Humanitarianism and Family Reunification at the End of Empire," Contemporary European History, FirstView, 13 Nov. 2024 [free full-text]

"The fraudulent family: US refugee admissions, moral economies of kinship, and DNA testing in Africa," American Ethnologist, vol. 52, no. 1 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"From waithood to alternative futures: unaccompanied children and young people’s temporalities of care in the UK’s migration regime," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 31 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"'Having children is like rain, as they say in our region': exploring refugees’ reproductive agency," Culture, Health & Sexuality, Latest Articles, 31 Jan. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on the Netherlands.

"The role of volunteer guardians as a key actor in providing social protection for unaccompanied minors in Italy," International Journal of Social Welfare, vol. 34, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"Under the Watch of the State? Refugee Parents’ Experiences with Surveillance in Norwegian Early Childhood Education Centers," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 15, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

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