They should not be returning
unaccompanied child refugees (2,018 of them between 2007 and 2015) to a place they have never lived and have no family connection to.
Last night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to block plans to help 3,000
unaccompanied child refugees in Europe.
But that's exactly what the Home Office has been trying to do to
unaccompanied child refugees and the consequences have been calamitous.
Dame Stephanie Shirley (84) arrived in Britain in 1939 as
an unaccompanied child refugee from Nazi Europe.
More specifically,
unaccompanied children refugees enjoy an additional protection pursuant to Article 10 (3)(a): their right to family reunification — by way of exemption of the regime applicable to «adults» refugees — is not left to the discretion of the Member States and submitted to the conditions set out in Article 4 (2)(a).
Not exact matches
Bethany Christian Services works in eight states to assist
refugee families with services like language training and transportation, and also places
unaccompanied children in foster homes.
Protect
unaccompanied minors by ensure that the UK plays its part in serving the needs of
refugee children at risk in our country, Europe, and the wider world.
That means accepting Save the
Children's plan to bring 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children in Europe to the UK, and opting in to the wider EU relocation
Children's plan to bring 3,000
unaccompanied refugee children in Europe to the UK, and opting in to the wider EU relocation
children in Europe to the UK, and opting in to the wider EU relocation scheme.
The lighthearted moment came shortly after Cameron had said that the UK will take in more
unaccompanied Syrian
refugee children from Europe.
Only this week the Tories voted against supporting 3,000
unaccompanied vulnerable
child refugees, while UKIP want to pull up the drawbridge.
Resources for working with special populations such as
refugees, migrants, students with interrupted education, newcomer immigrants,
unaccompanied children, and internationally adopted students follow below.
Councils, which are responsible for finding school places for
unaccompanied refugees, have called for further clarity on how much additional funding will be provided to help schools to take the
children in.
Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed in a lawsuit on behalf of three undocumented immigrant youth that the federal agency is teaming up with police departments (including the 250 law enforcement agencies operated by traditional district schools) to pick up, detain, and ultimately, deport
unaccompanied refugee children and other undocumented minors.
In particular, such an interpretation would entail that two different
unaccompanied children of the same age and who have applied at the same for the
refugee status, would be treated differently with regards to their right to family reunification depending on how quick or slow the national authorities would process their application (paras 55 - 56).
In its
children's rights centred ruling, the Court made clear that Article 10 (3)(a) of Family Reunification Directive (Directive 2003 / 86 / EC) creates an enforceable right to
unaccompanied minor
refugees to be reunited with their parents; a right which can not be thwarted by the «negligent» behaviour of the national authorities.
a. Those who are the subject of international parental disputes over custody or contact; b. Those who are the subject of international abduction (including in those states which are not able to join the 1980 Hague
Child Abduction Convention); c. Those who are placed abroad in alternative care arrangements which do not come within the definition of adoption and are therefore outside the scope of the 1993 Hague Inter-country Adoption Convention; d. Those who are the subject of cross-border trafficking and other forms of exploitation, including sexual abuse; e. Those who are
refugees or
unaccompanied minors.
This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and
unaccompanied and
refugee children currently living in the United States.
The powers and duties in section 20 enable
children's services to make arrangements for
children who are abandoned or separated from their parents without needing to ask a court (e.g. an
unaccompanied refugee child).
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.
Similarly, in a large - scale survey of 600 Vietnamese
children living in a
refugee centre in Hong Kong, McCallin (1992) observed anxiety and depression in a majority of
children surveyed, with pronounced effects among those
children unaccompanied.
Loughry and Flouri (2001) for example, investigated the behavioural and emotional problems of 455 former
unaccompanied refugee children and youth aged between 10 and 22, three to four years after their repatriation to Vietnam from
refugee centres in Hong Kong and South East Asia.
The behavioral and emotional problems of former
unaccompanied refugee children 3 - 4 years after their return to Vietnam.