Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

Immigration Enforcement at All Costs: How the Trump Administration is Endangering Unaccompanied Immigrant Children (National Immigrant Justice Center et al., May 2025) [text]

- See also related AP News story.

Trump Administration Moves to End Flores Settlement that Protects Immigrant Children (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Children of Immigrants in 2022-23: National and State Patterns (Urban Institute, May 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Dynamics and challenges for child migration in South America (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

Shifting Immigration Policies Jeopardize Immigrant Families with Children (Urban Institute, May 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Journal articles:

"Critical Multimodal Literacy: An Analysis of Young Children’s Picture Books about Refugees," International Journal of Early Childhood, Latest Articles, 21 May 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

"Family Separation Planning Among Undocumented Latina Immigrant Parents with U.S. Citizen Children," Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, OnlineFirst, 1 May 2025 [open access]

"Forced Adoptions of Ukrainian Children from an International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Perspective," Pace International Law Review, vol. 37, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"No One Behind: A Visual Sentiment Analysis of Refugees from Gaza and Ukraine Saving Their Pets," International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Latest Articles, 28 May 2025 [open access] 

"Post-traumatic stress disorder and its associated factors: a cross-sectional study among refugee children and adolescents living in a Ugandan refugee settlement," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 16, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Protecting Migrant Children in Thailand: Importance of Social Integration and Roles of Civil Society," Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (2025) [full-text] 

"The psychological impact of missing family on forcibly displaced people," Forced Migration Review, no. 75 (May 2025) [open access]

"Separation of children: causes, impacts and mitigation strategies," Forced Migration Review, no. 75 (May 2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (20 May 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (20 May 2025)