Sentences with phrase «unaccompanied refugees»

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.

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 scheme.

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.

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).

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.

Behavior problems and traumatic events of unaccompanied refugee minors.

Sourander (1998) examined traumatic events and emotional and behavioural symptoms of 46 unaccompanied refugee minors awaiting placement in an asylum centre in Finland.

The behavioral and emotional problems of former unaccompanied refugee children 3 - 4 years after their return to Vietnam.

Not exact matches

Dame Stephanie Shirley (84) arrived in Britain in 1939 as an unaccompanied child refugee from Nazi Europe.

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.

The comments come as Farron sends a letter to the prime minister demanding he accept 3,000 unaccompanied orphans from the Middle East in addition to the 20,000 Syrian refugees the UK is already pledged to take over the next five years.

The lighthearted moment came shortly after Cameron had said that the UK will take in more unaccompanied Syrian refugee children from Europe.

But that's exactly what the Home Office has been trying to do to unaccompanied child refugees and the consequences have been calamitous.

Among those who will meet with and be blessed by the Pope during his visit on Sept. 25th are day laborers from Westchester, immigrant mothers from Yonkers and East Harlem, unaccompanied youth fleeing persecution in Central America, and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

Last night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to block plans to help 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees in Europe.

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.

You can count on one hand the amount of times in the past two parliaments that the Lords has made significant interventions into legislation drafted in the commons — for example, on George Osborne's cuts to tax credits in 2015 and the so - called Dubs Amendment on unaccompanied minor refugees in 2016.

Only this week the Tories voted against supporting 3,000 unaccompanied vulnerable child refugees, while UKIP want to pull up the drawbridge.

The UK government recently agreed to take in some unaccompanied minors from a refugee camp in Calais, France.

Due to the fragmented and limited mental health staff resources in refugee camps, those refugee who were judged to be at high risk — such as victims of violence, unaccompanied minors, single young women and men, and elderly people — were given prior ity (Gong - Guy, Cravens, and Patterson 1991).

Resources for working with special populations such as refugees, migrants, students with interrupted education, newcomer immigrants, unaccompanied children, and internationally adopted students follow below.

Recently arrived immigrant English learners (RAIELs) are a highly diverse group, encompassing important subgroups such as students with refugee status, unaccompanied minors, and students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFEs).

The Court further pointed out that the objective of the Family Reunification Directive is, in particular, to guarantee through Article 10 (3)(a) an additional protection to refugees who are unaccompanied minors, by providing them with an enforceable right to family reunification which consequently entail a positive obligation on the Member States to give a right of admission to their parents.

A «reasonable» time would in principle be three months for the unaccompanied minor refugee to apply for family reunification after the decision on refugee status (para 61).

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).

The Court further ties the process through which the refugee status is granted with the right to family reunification and sees with suspicion any administrative delays in processing unaccompanied minors applications for international protection as such delays can be easily used with the aim of nullifying their preferential right to family reunification.

This would call into question the effectiveness of the Family Reunification Directive and thwart the specific protection for unaccompanied minor refugees, as well as the principle of equal treatment and legal certainty.

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).

The special protection for unaccompanied minor asylum - seekers under the Family Reunification Directive would therefore extend beyond the age of maturity if the person concerned is able to access the territory of a Member State, submit an application for the refugee status before turning eighteen and is successively successful in their application.

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.

Pro bono Designated Representatives to unaccompanied minors arriving at Pearson Airport seeking refugee status.

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 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.

Estimates of psychological distress among Vietnamese refugees: Adolescents, unaccompanied minors and young adults.