07 October 2025

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

America’s Forgotten Children: Why unaccompanied minors deserve protection, representation, and care (Psychology Today Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Family Separation 2.0: More Complex but Just as Harmful (Women's Refugee Commission, Sept. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Trump administration says it will pay migrant children $2.5K to return to home countries (The Hill, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Generating Evidence on Internally Displaced Children, Afghan Child Migrants and Forcibly Displaced Children in Pakistan (UNICEF, Sept. 2025) [access]
- Follow link for report and policy brief.

Migrant and Refugee Children Via Mixed Migration Routes in Europe: Accompanied, Unaccompanied and Separated - Overview of Trends 2024 (UNHCR, UNICEF & IOM, Sept. 2025) [text]

Protecting Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children Along Routes (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

What now for refugee family reunion applications? (Free Movement Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]
- See also related commentary from the Migration Observatory and UNHCR UK.

Journal articles:

"Experiences of forced migration and internal displacement: The case of adolescents in the East Ukraine conflict in 2014-2022," Routed Magazine (July 2025) [text]

"Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK: Exploring the Potential of Article 8 ECHR Interpreted in line with the Best Interests of the Child," Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law, vol. 39, no. 1 (2025) [postprint]

"From accompaniment to abandonment: unaccompanied migrant minors and adolescents in Andalusia (Spain)," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, no. 33 (2025) [open access]

"Immunisation coverage among refugee Afghan children in Islamic Republic of Iran," Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 31, no. 8 (2025) [open access]

"Playing for Time: Temporary Status, Migration Control and the Human Rights of Forced Migrants to Family Reunification," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 26 Sept. 2025 [open access]
- "[A]nalyzes a set of cases in front of the European Court of Human Rights."

"Reassessing Age Assessment: When the Violence of Age Meets the Violence of the Border," Human Rights Quarterly (Forthcoming) [postprint]

"A Scoping Review of the Role of Sensory and Narrative Processes in the Wellbeing and Belonging of Young Refugees," Journal of Child and Family Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

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