11 June 2026

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? (Brookings Institution, May 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

A Changing World: Time and the Impact of Aid Reduction on IDP Children (RID Blog, May 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the Philippines.

Legal Gaps in Protecting Children's Mental Health in Armed Conflicts (OpinioJuris, June 2026) [text]

What do Home Office reforms mean for refugee children growing up in poverty? (LSE British Politics Blog, June 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Reports:

The Office of Refugee Resettlement Needs to Improve Its Monitoring of Unlicensed Unaccompanied Alien Children Program Care Providers’ Compliance with Background Check Requirements (U.S. DHS Office of Inspector General, June 2026) [text]

When Aid Disappears, Childhoods Disappear Too - Fifteen Years of Lessons in Somalia: Why Global Solidarity Must Return in 2026 to Protect Children (Save the Children, 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Coping among Afghan Former Unaccompanied Refugee Children in the UK: A Qualitative Study Exploring Barriers and Influences Over Time," Transcultural Psychiatry, OnlineFirst, 13 May 2026 [open access]

"Eroding Protections, Expanding Enforcement: Transformations in the Policies and Practices Governing the Treatment of Unaccompanied Children in the United States under the Second Trump Administration," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 4 June 2026 [full-text]

"Exposure to intimate partner violence against women and its association with experiences and perpetration of violence among children and youth in refugee camps in Ethiopia," Conflict and Health, 12 May 2026 [open access]

"'The Glucksman is like home': young asylum-seekers, belonging and the right to the city," Journal of Youth Studies, Latest Articles, 5 June 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Ireland.

"Refugee rights, family reunification, and the protection of child refugees under the Refugee Convention at 75," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 5 June 2026 [open access]

"The role of family dynamics in (return) migration aspirations among Ukrainian protection holders in Germany," Comparative Migration Studies, 14:32 (May 2026) [open access]

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