29 September 2026

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

Around 90% of refugee kids live in poverty in their first year in Australia: report (The Conversation, Sept. 2026) [text]

Children in Anguish as Immigration Arrests Surge: Families Ripped Apart by Deportations (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Risking children to save them: moral dilemmas faced by parents in forced migration (FluchtforschungsBlog, May 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Syrians.

Russia is trying to force Ukrainian children to become Russian, with reeducation, forcible transfers and camps (The Conversation, Aug. 2026) [text]

Reports:

CONNECT-WELL: Lessons for Participatory Research on Social Connectedness and Wellbeing Among Young Refugees in Scotland and Lower Saxony (Queen Margaret Univ. & Hochschule Hannover., Aug. 2026) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Journal articles:

"After the Pact: access to legal support by unaccompanied migrant children in the European Union," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 38, no. 2 (June 2026) [open access]

"Caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or Refugee Children in Foster Care," Australian Social Work, Latest Articles, 23 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"Children’s Homes as Refugee Spaces: Child Refugees and Institutional Care in Socialist Czechoslovakia," Central European History, FirstView, 17 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"Resettled Families, Reimagined Futures: Home Visiting at the Nexus of Loss, Growth, and Belonging," Journal of Child and Family Studies, vol. 35, no. 9 (Sept. 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"Services to support the integration of unaccompanied immigrant children: A systematic review of international literature," Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 191 (Dec. 2026) [preprint]

"Strengthening Parenting Among Refugees in Europe (SPARE): Feasibility of an Adapted Parenting Intervention for Ukrainian Refugees in Iceland," Family Process, vol. 65, no. 3 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

"Urban refugee children's integration through a spatial lens: Everyday emotional geographies in two cities," Political Geography, vol. 131 (Dec. 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Kampala and Tel Aviv.

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