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Ten Life (forever) on hold: unaccompanied asylumseeking minors in Australia
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Abstract
This chapter describes the situation of unaccompanied children who have sought asylum and are living in Australia. The chapter highlights changing immigration policy towards unaccompanied children, and the outcome of an increasingly restrictive regime. It critiques their treatment within a human rights and rights of the child framework and discuss the challenges and dilemmas faced by service providers charged with the care and supervision of these children. It concludes with some reflections on models of care that address young people’s needs, promote their rights and challenge the broader political and policy context that impacts so determinately on these children and young adults current well-being and on their futures.
Abstract
This chapter describes the situation of unaccompanied children who have sought asylum and are living in Australia. The chapter highlights changing immigration policy towards unaccompanied children, and the outcome of an increasingly restrictive regime. It critiques their treatment within a human rights and rights of the child framework and discuss the challenges and dilemmas faced by service providers charged with the care and supervision of these children. It concludes with some reflections on models of care that address young people’s needs, promote their rights and challenge the broader political and policy context that impacts so determinately on these children and young adults current well-being and on their futures.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- List of acronyms vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Foreword xv
- Introduction 1
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Framing the youth migration debate
- Migration regimes and border controls: the crisis in Europe 15
- Dilemmas and conflicts in the legal system 39
- Caring for and about unaccompanied migrant youth 77
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Exploring migrant youth identities
- Preface to Section 2: Voices of separated migrant youth 105
- Narrating the young migrant journey: themes of self-representation 115
- From individual vulnerability to collective resistance: responding to the emotional impact of trauma on unaccompanied children seeking asylum 135
- Spaces of belonging and social care 159
- ‘Durable solutions’ when turning 18 187
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International perspectives
- A relational approach to unaccompanied minor migration, detention and legal protection in Mexico and the US 211
- Unaccompanied migrant youth in the Nordic countries 235
- Life (forever) on hold: unaccompanied asylumseeking minors in Australia 257
- Conclusion 279
- Index 289
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- List of acronyms vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Foreword xv
- Introduction 1
-
Framing the youth migration debate
- Migration regimes and border controls: the crisis in Europe 15
- Dilemmas and conflicts in the legal system 39
- Caring for and about unaccompanied migrant youth 77
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Exploring migrant youth identities
- Preface to Section 2: Voices of separated migrant youth 105
- Narrating the young migrant journey: themes of self-representation 115
- From individual vulnerability to collective resistance: responding to the emotional impact of trauma on unaccompanied children seeking asylum 135
- Spaces of belonging and social care 159
- ‘Durable solutions’ when turning 18 187
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International perspectives
- A relational approach to unaccompanied minor migration, detention and legal protection in Mexico and the US 211
- Unaccompanied migrant youth in the Nordic countries 235
- Life (forever) on hold: unaccompanied asylumseeking minors in Australia 257
- Conclusion 279
- Index 289
