How immigration detention harms children

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.

Press Release: New Report Documents the Mental and Physical ...

Our study, a review of 165 medical records of children in an ICE family immigration detention facility at Karnes County Family Residential ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

End Immigration Detention of Children

Europe continues to be faced with unprecedented numbers of migrants seeking protection. Migrant children are the most vulnerable group, whether they are ...

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 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.

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 ...

IMPACTS OF DETENTION ON CHILDREN

Much research into the effects of immigration detention comes from Australia because of Australia's long-standing practice of detaining children who arrive ...

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 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.

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 ...

Mental Health in Detention | National Immigrant Justice Center

People with mental illness who are detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are frequently subjected to abuse and solitary confinement.

Lengthy Detention Of Migrant Children May Create Lasting Trauma ...

Psychologists say that indefinite detention could have a lasting impact on the development and mental health of these children.