Sentences with phrase «child seeking asylum»

Administrative closure of a case is typically granted when the judge decides the child seeking asylum might be eligible for some sort of immigration relief.

Laura recently completed an internship at NWIRP where she advocated for immigrant children seeking asylum from gang violence and neglect.

I am a member of the Federal Trial Bar and have devoted significant time to pro bono work, helping unaccompanied children seeking asylum navigate the U.S. immigrant justice system and, more recently, helping exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals.

We aim to enable women and children seeking asylum in the UK to tell their own stories.

Clare Hammerton examines the serious and widespread denial of the rights of children seeking asylum in Australia.

The data collected include information on outcomes of child abuse reports, numbers availing of family support services, numbers and categories of children in care, numbers availing of youth homelessness services, and services for separated children seeking asylum.

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Eight women and children from a caravan of hundreds of Central American migrants have sought asylum in the U.S. after officials allowed them entry from Mexico.

Just two years ago, the Obama administration inked a $ 1 billion deal with CCA to build a facility in Dilley, Texas, that would detain women and children from Central America seeking US asylum, according to a Washington Post report earlier this week.

Eight women and children from a Central American caravan entered U.S. territory to seek asylum on Monday, sparking celebrations among companions after a month - long trail across Mexico that led President Donald Trump to demand changes in the law.

Home for Good also allows people to register their interest in fostering an unaccompanied asylum seeking child.

Prove your god, heaven, hell, etc exist or shut your trap... only the mentally ill and children have imaginary friends, given that you're not likely a child you would be best advised to seek the local asylum and get medicated for your delusions before you cause damage to the world or better yet, take a leap of faith and then tell us if your imaginary friend exists you gullible fool!!

Kent County Council, which has responsibility for a large proportion of all unaccompanied asylum - seeking children, is struggling under the increased pressure.

Catherine Gladwell, director of Refugee Support Network, a charity that works with hundreds of asylum - seeking children, explained: «A lot of young people tell us that some of the things that happen to them on the way to the UK are just as difficult and just as traumatic as things that happened to cause them to leave in the first place.

Over the past year I have been researching the struggle faced by unaccompanied asylum - seeking children that arrive in the UK looking for protection.

I interviewed dozens of experts, social workers, lawyers and asylum - seeking teenagers and found that, far from being welcomed to safety, vulnerable children face an overwhelming number of obstacles.

Most kids who come to the UK and claim asylum are rejected and instead granted given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

But they are then given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

The council is supporting significant numbers of unaccompanied asylum - seeking children who do not have English as a second language and require additional support in schools.

Mary was a teenage mother, living with a man who is not the father of her child, homeless and seeking asylum - it's enough to have a Daily Mail leader writer salivating in anticipation!

The Home Office has confirmed it is looking at plans to forcibly remove hundreds of unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the UK.

«These children are not adults, they have not made adult choices to seek asylum.

• There is a correlation between the appalling treatment the Windrush generation has suffered and the unaccompanied asylum - seeking children (Dubs children) promised safety and sanctuary but denied it by the Home Office.

IMAGES of asylum - seeking children arriving in the UK have sparked concern, with several Tory MPs questioning their age and proposing dental checks to make sure they are not adults.

He seeks asylum with a group of Belgian monks, but soon after he arrives, a child disappears.

Five stories giving a unique insight into the lives of young people who have sought asylum in the UK, told by the children themselves.

In one film, the filmmaker interviews a Nigerian refugee seeking asylum in London about his experiences as a child soldier.

She represents cases involving Asylum seeking children, gender based and religious persecution and exclusion from the Refugee Convention.

Placements 75 % (52,050) of children looked after on 31st March 2015 were living with foster carers 9 % (6,570) were living in secure units, children's homes or hostels 5 % (3,510) were placed with their parents 5 % (3,320) were placed for adoption 3 % (2,280) were with another placement in the community 3 % (1,750) were placed in residential schools or other residential settings Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children 2,630 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commechildren looked after on 31st March 2015 were living with foster carers 9 % (6,570) were living in secure units, children's homes or hostels 5 % (3,510) were placed with their parents 5 % (3,320) were placed for adoption 3 % (2,280) were with another placement in the community 3 % (1,750) were placed in residential schools or other residential settings Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children 2,630 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commechildren's homes or hostels 5 % (3,510) were placed with their parents 5 % (3,320) were placed for adoption 3 % (2,280) were with another placement in the community 3 % (1,750) were placed in residential schools or other residential settings Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children 2,630 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commentAsylum Seeking Children 2,630 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commenSeeking Children 2,630 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commeChildren 2,630 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commentasylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commenseeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#commechildren were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#comment-62844

Some of the ABA staff, particularly those that are connected with the ProBar program which provides pro bono representation to individuals seeking asylum at the Texas border, many of them unaccompanied children, some of that staff they've resigned, they've given notice, they've expressed severe concern about the ABA no longer being a qualified public service loan forgiveness employer.

Successfully advocated for pro bono clients, including immigrants in asylum proceedings and unaccompanied children seeking special immigrant juvenile status.

The current study focuses on coping strategies among social workers and police officers in the context of the forced repatriation of unaccompanied asylum - seeking refugee children.

Coping with Stress in the Forced Repatriation of Unaccompanied Asylum - Seeking Refugee Children among Swedish Police Officers and Social Workers

Though not all refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are subjected to these circumstances, experiences often claimed to be encountered by them include the violent death of a parent, injury / torture towards a family member (s), witness of murder / massacre, terrorist attack (s), child - soldier activity, bombardments and shelling, detention, beatings and / or physical injury, disability inflicted by violence, sexual assault, disappearance of family members / friends, witness of parental fear and panic, famine, forcible eviction, separation and forced migration (Burnett & Peel, 2001; Davies & Webb, 2000).

Second, particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents, and those engaged in the uncertain process of sought asylum.

Sourander (1998) concluded that unaccompanied children and adolescents are highly vulnerable towards emotional and behavioural symptoms, which are exacerbated by asylum - seeking stress.

It is also apparent that particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents and those still in the process of seeking asylum.

Such experiences not only make refugee / asylum seeking populations heterogeneous, they also create vulnerability in children and adolescents due to their incomplete biopsychosocial development, dependency, inability to understand certain life events (Kocijan - Hercigonja, Rijavec & Hercigonja, 1998) and underdevelopment of coping skills (Ajdukovic & Ajdukovic, 1993).

It should be noted in any discussion of psychological problems however, that refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are more likely to have serious health problems associated with malnutrition, disease, physical injuries, brain damage and sexual or physical abuse (Westermeyer, 1991).

Regarding children and adolescents in the process of sought asylum, the study of Ajdukovic and Ajdukovic (1993) stands among very few in the published literature.

Acculturative stress (that is stress due to difficulties associated with adapting to a new culture) also place refugee / asylum seeking children and adolescents at greater psychological risk.

While not replicated, these differential findings across cultures reflect the need to investigate systematically cultural influences on child and adolescent mental health among the refugee and asylum seeking populations.

Despite controversy surrounding the application of PTSD to refugee / asylum seeking children and adolescents (e.g., the diagnostic approach «medicalises» and «westernises» emotional disturbance and «pathologises» perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations), investigations across various countries have shown that trauma symptomology is common in refugee children and adolescents (Ajdukovic & Ajdukovic, 1993; Hjern, Angel, & Hoejer, 1991; Kinzie, Sack, Angell, Manson & Ben, 1986; Mollica, Poole, Son, Murray & Tor, 1997; Sack, Clarke & Seeley, 1996; Sack, Seeley & Clarke, 1997).

Remove all barriers to asylum - seeking children's rapid enrolment and full inclusion in mainstream schools and early learning programmes.

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has published a report looking at the Home Office's handling of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and how...

Foster carers are needed from all ethnic origins with varying faiths, cultures and languages, especially for sibling groups, teenagers, children from black and minority ethnic groups, children with disabilities and asylum seeking children.

Figures vary but with approximately three quarters of the children and young people in care being placed with foster carers, we still need more foster carers to look after specific groups of children such as teenagers, children from ethnic minority groups, sibling groups and unaccompanied asylum seeking young people.

In particular, foster carers are needed to look after teenagers, disabled children, sibling groups and unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

Our latest report «Protected on paper» reviews to what extent the rights of asylum - seeking children in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are being protected.