Not exact matches
Immigration: All aspects
of immigration, asylum, nationality and
refugee law with particular emphasis and expertise in: asylum and human rights cases; overlap between asylum and extradition law; representing
children subject to immigration control; representing victims
of trafficking and other vulnerable clients;
detention and deportation; immigration issues in adoption and surrogacy cases; immigration for family members
of British and settled people; EEA - related matters, in particular relating to third - country national family members; appeal work in FTT and UT and the higher courts; public law challenges to Home Office in judicial review; and immigration bail.
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).
Search terms included single and combined forms
of the following descriptors:
refugee camp,
refugee detention, imprisonment,
child and / or adolescent
refugee, asylum seeker, displacement, Australia, development, long term effects, long term stress, post-traumatic stress, stress, psychopathology, mental health, psychiatric effects and psychological well being.