Protecting migrant children : in search of best practice / edited by Mary Crock, Lenni Benson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Crock, Mary, editor.

Benson, Lenni, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.

Summary:

With unprecedented numbers of children on the move in search of safety, Protecting Migrant Children explores the complex legal and human rights issues that arise when children cross borders as migrants. It critically examines the strengths and weaknesses of international and domestic laws with the aim of identifying best practice for migrant children. The book brings together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of experts to assess the nature and root causes of child migration in different parts of the world, featuring national and comparative case studies in Australia, Canada, Europe, the United States and parts of Asia and Africa. The contributors address systematically the many challenges experienced and posed by young people who cross borders in search of protection, or a better quality of life. Identifying the many universal issues facing states who play host to these children, the book lays the foundations for new paradigms in law, policy and practice in the reception and management of child migrants, refugees and victims of trafficking. Topical and engaging, this book is an important resource for academics and students in human rights law; migration and refugee law; the administrative and procedural issues of refugee law, and comparative law; as well as in the social sciences and health sciences. Policymakers and workers within the community sector will also find this book stimulating and informative.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Central issues in the protection of child migrants / Mary Crock and Lenni Benson

Part I

2. The where, when and how of children on the move / Arezo Malakooti

3. Why they leave: latin american immigrant youths and their quest for survivai / Isabel Martinez

Part II

Protection frameworks

II.1

International and regional frameworks

4. First things first: international law and the protection of migrant child children / Mary Crock and Hannah Martin

5. Children and the convention relating to the status of refugees / Mary Crock and Phoebe Yule

6. Migrant children and the United Nations protocols against smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons / Andreas Schloenhardt and Joseph Lelliott

7. Immigration control and the best interests of the child in Europe / Carmelo Danisi (with Mary Crock)

8. Under siege: alternative care for urban unaccompanied and separated refugee children in Kenya / Agnes Olusese, Shamm Petros and Edwin Odhiambo Abuya

9. Defending migrant children and youth in the Inter-American system / Carlos Holguin and Kavita Kapur

II.2

case studies

10. Child migration and trafficking in South East Asia / Kathryn van Doore

11. Regulating child labour in China: a historical perspective of internal child migration / Mimi Zou

Part III Protecting child migrants - domestic laws

12. Protecting migrant children in the United Kingdom / Catriona Jarvis and Sydney Bolton

13. The legal treatment of immigrant children in the United States / David Thronson

14. Children and refugee law in Australia and the United States / Kate Bones and Timnah Baker

15. Protection measures for unaccompanied child migrants in Canada / Geraldine Sadoway

Part IV

Process matters

16. "These don't look like children to me": age assessment of unaccompanied and separated children / Mary Anne Kenny and Maryanne Loughry

17. Procedure deficits in protection for immigrant children in the United States / Lenni Benson and Claire Thomas

18. Asylum seeking children and the Australian protection visa process / Savitri Taylor

Part V Children and immigration detention

19. Detention as a last resort: the implications of the Human Rights Committee's general comment no 35 / Gerald Neuman

20. The impact of detention on the health, wellbeing and development of children: findings from the second national inquiry into children in immigration detention / Gillian Triggs

21. The rise and rise of mandatory immigration detention / Daniel Ghezelbash

Part VI Challenges and solutions

22. Fleeing the maras from within: asylum claims by children defecting from criminal gangs / Farrin Anello

23. Don't look behind you: unaccompanied and separated children who have participated in armed conflict in South Sudan / Kasey Tyler and Shelly Whitman

24. In search of solutions for unaccompanied children fleeing Central America / Pamela Goldberg

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78643-026-6