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Unaccompanied or separated children face increased health risks ...


Undocumented and unaccompanied: children of migration in the ...

These contexts create new challenges and forms of vulnerability for these minors today. Child migrants often leave conditions of extreme ...

Reimagining Children's Immigration Proceedings — Young Center

This same law permits unaccompanied and separated children seeking asylum to make their claim before an asylum officer, rather than face a government attorney ...

Record Numbers of Child Migrants in Latin America ... - UNICEF USA

The safety risks are greatest for separated and unaccompanied children and women, who are preyed upon by traffickers, criminals, organized ...

Fact Sheet: Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UACs)

Deporting UACs presents an increased risk of returning them to contexts of trafficking, abuse and exploitation. Page 2. UACs also face a number of challenges ...

LOST AND ALONE: - World Vision International

Increase caregivers and community members' understanding and awareness of heightened protection risks for diverse groups of unaccompanied and separated children ...

Protecting the Human Rights of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

Each year, approximately 8,000 immigrant children under the age of 18 enter the United States without a parent, guardian, or legal documents.

“Not the France I Imagined”: Housing, Health, and Education for ...

An immediate consequence of a negative age assessment is eviction from emergency shelter, subjecting children to life on the street, degrading ...

UME0024 - Evidence on Unaccompanied minors in the EU

[1] Once they arrive in Europe, many refugee and migrant children are living in overcrowded and inadequate conditions, where they are at risk of violence, ...

The Challenges for Doctors Treating Migrant Children Separated ...

The children who come in with medical issues such as asthma are without adult family members who can provide medical history, Dr. Kaufman said.

Blog: The Role of School-Based Health Centers in Supporting ...

The increase in the migration of unaccompanied children speaks to the fleeing from violence and poverty. Many unaccompanied children will remain ...

Migration-of-Unaccompanied-Children-Factors-in-Successful ...

Sponsors don't want youth to be in sports because of health risks. ... Child/youth is at increased risk for abuse, abandonment, neglect, isolation ...

Mental health and well-being of unaccompanied minors A Nordic ...

Unaccompanied children as a parti- cularly vulnerable group are more easily influenced by their environment. • Unaccompanied girls are at special risk of forced ...

Supporting unaccompanied and separated children in family based ...

“Supporting un-Accompanied children with Family-based care and Enhanced ... I have mental health problems from waiting so long, I feel like I cannot move.

Conference on Protection of Unaccompanied and Separated Children

At refugee camps or in cities, unaccompanied minors must often fend for themselves, or are forced to rely on adults who exploit them. Many ...

PROTECTING UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN - GovInfo

Maxwell, is it common for separated children to face serious mental health issues? Ms. Maxwell. We heard that from the staff that treat them that they were more ...

Unaccompanied Children in Limbo: The Causes and ...

Immigration detention, age determination, access to asylum procedures, and the risks of exploitation and abuse both during and following the ...

Refugee children - Wikipedia

In addition to facing the direct threat of violence resulting from conflict, forcibly displaced children also face various health risks, including: disease ...

Protecting Immigrant Children: A Public Health of Consequence ...

Since the reporting of this separation policy more than five years ago, the polarization of immigration policies in the United States has ...

KIND in Mexico - Kids in Need of Defense

KIND assists migrant children who are unaccompanied, separated, or at-risk of separation with a focus on Mexico's Northern and Southern Border Regions.

mental health problems in unaccompanied migrant children from the

The traumatic experiences these young children face during their pre-migration, in-transit, and post-migration journey raise significant concerns about ...