How Immigration Detention Harms Children and Families

Migrant children in U.S. detention face physical, mental harms: report

Children detained for a prolonged period in family immigration detention centers in the US are experiencing mental and physical harm due to inadequate and ...

U.S. Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement

Deportations of parents and family members have serious consequences that affect children and extend to communities and the country as a whole.

How immigration detention harms children: A conceptual framework ...

This paper identifies the multiple adversities and trauma experienced by children who are detained after seeking asylum.

How Immigration Detention Harms Children - APA PsycNet

Objective: This paper identifies the multiple adversities and trauma experienced by children who are detained after seeking asylum.

Press Release: New Report Finds Immigration Detention Harms ...

Press Release: New Report Finds Immigration Detention Harms Children's Mental and Physical Health. January 11, 2024. CHILD MIGRANTS IN FAMILY IMMIGRATION ...

Through Iceboxes and Kennels: How Immigration Detention Harms ...

This book reviews the history and politics of immigration enforcement and detention centers operated by private prison companies, featuring the stories of ...

How immigration detention harms children: A conceptual framework ...

Objective: This paper identifies the multiple adversities and trauma experienced by children who are detained after seeking asylum.

How Immigration Detention Harms Children and Families

This book traces the rise of family migration from Central America in 2014, a phenomenon that led to the incarceration—and, in many cases, the ...

Through Iceboxes and Kennels: How Immigration Detention Harms ...

Through stories and thoughtful analysis, this book shows how migration and US immigration detention harms the future of immigrant children and their parents.

How detention causes long-term harm to children | PBS News

The Trump administration plans to detain immigrant children who enter the U.S. illegally with their families with no deadline for release, ...

Child Migrants In Family Immigration Detention in the US

The study is the first analysis of the medical records of children as young as six months old and a median age of nine years old detained ...

Child Immigration Detention is Not Only Wrong, It Is Ineffective

Detention of children for immigration purposes - whether they are traveling alone or with their families – has been recognized as a child rights violation.

Sleep Deprivation of Detained Children: Another Reason to End ...

We wish to call attention to a specific inevitable and inhumane consequence of child detention—sleep deprivation—as yet another reason to end child detention ...

How detention centers affect the health of immigrant children

Researchers have documented and quantified the physical and mental health toll that immigrant children experience during and after detention.

Immigration detention is harmful to health

A new report by WHO/Europe finds that immigration detention can have a severe impact on migrants' health, especially mental health, during and after release ...

Detention of Immigrant Children | American Academy of Pediatrics

In fiscal year (FY) 2014, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained 68 631 unaccompanied children and another 68 684 children in family units ...

Introduction | Through Iceboxes and Kennels - Oxford Academic

The federal government had previously put mothers, fathers, and children in immigration prisons, or “baby jails” as many called them. But 2014 ...

US: Family Separation Harming Children, Families

United States officials are separating migrant children from their families at the border, causing severe and lasting harm.

Why Detaining Children Is Harmful | UNICEF USA

Detention of children, even with their parents, is a threat to children's well-being — it puts them at risk of exploitation and abuse ...

How Immigration Detention Harms Children: A Conceptual ...

A conceptual framework identifies the specific impact of immigration detention on the psychosocial development and mental health of refugee ...