Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States

ISBN-13: 9781032074252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 156 str.

Cecilia Menjívar; Krista Perreira

Opis

This book focuses on the migration of undocumented minors arriving recently to the United States and the European Union.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Unaccompanied minors from the Northern Central American countries in the migrant stream: social differentials and institutional contexts 3. Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico 4. Deportation as a sacrament of the state: the religious instruction of contracted chaplains in U.S. detention facilities 5. Integration of unaccompanied migrant youth in the United States: a call for research 6. Best interests, durable solutions and belonging: policy discourses shaping the futures of unaccompanied migrant and refugee minors coming of age in Europe 7. Outsourcing the ‘best interests’ of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity 8. Better off without parents? Legal and ethical questions concerning refugee children in Germany