Book
Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives
(2019)
Abstract
Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at the center.
This volume gathers international experts from the fields of social work, social science, law, philosophy, and Catholic ethics. Social science, psychological, and social work studies, analyses of US and international law of child migration, refuge and asylum policies, and several case studies regarding law enforcement highlight the more recent shifts in policies both in the United States and Europe. The current policies are confronted with two major normative frameworks that go beyond migration laws or the international refugee and asylum provisions: the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, and the approach of the Catholic social ethics of migration.
Publication Date
2019
Editor
Hille Haker and Molly Greening
Publisher
Lexington Books
ISBN
978-1-4985-7452-5
Citation Information
Hille Haker and Molly Greening. Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives. (2019) - 268 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hille_haker/71/