Essays about: "Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children.

  1. 6. Unaccompanied Children’s Right to Legal Assistance in Asylum Proceedings. An overview of the universal and regional systems of human rights protection in Europe and the Americas.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Marina Vannelli; [2017]
    Keywords : asylum-seeking child; Unaccompanied children; procedural guarantees; legal representation; asylum procedures; best interest principle; human rights.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The situation of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is nowadays a global issue affecting an important number of children all over the world. Nevertheless, the special needs and vulnerabilities of this group of children have not yet been effectively assessed. READ MORE

  3. 7. Child protection systems in Sweden : gaps and challenges in services to asylum-seeking and returning children in families

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Joanna Ericson; [2017]
    Keywords : child protection systems; child maltreatment; gap analysis; children in families; migration;

    Abstract : During the second half of 2015, Sweden experienced the largest inflow of asylum-seekers in its history. Almost 163,000 people sought asylum in 2015, whereof approximately 70,000 children. READ MORE

  4. 8. Running from Asylum: Unravelling the paradox of why some unaccompanied asylum-seeking children disappear from the system that is designed to protect them

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Suzanne Snowden; [2017]
    Keywords : Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children; Intersectionality; Governmentality; Othering; Sweden;

    Abstract : Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) disappearing from protection of the asylum system is a phenomenon that occurs around the world. Sweden is not immune to UASC disappearances, despite Swedish asylum laws and practices being based on the “Best Interests of the Child” (BIC). READ MORE

  5. 9. Unaccompanied children - the effects of asylum process : A study on the effects of the waiting process of asylum seeking in Sweden for unaccompanied children

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Hallex Berry Nyame; [2015]
    Keywords : Unaccompanied children; statelessness; rightlessness; undocumented; totalitarianism; state sovereignty; national states; territorialism; discrimination; children’s rights; alienation;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a qualitative research of asylum seeking of unaccompanied children in Sweden. Children who find themselves traveling borders without company of a family member are in a very vulnerable position. READ MORE

  6. 10. SEPARATED AND UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN PLACED IN CARE - Perspectives and experiences of Professionals working in Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Eloisa Nair Lopes da Costa; [2014-01-03]
    Keywords : Separated and unaccompanied children; care placements; best interest of the child; integration; social inclusion;

    Abstract : According to the United Nations Refugee Agency nearly half of the thirty four million people registered as refugees are children. In 2012, Sweden received 2915 separated and unaccompanied asylum seeking children, the highest number ever registered in the Country; and by the end of August 2013, there were already 1958 new applications. READ MORE