Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. List of acronyms vii
5. Notes on contributors ix
6. Acknowledgements xiii
7. Foreword xv
8. Introduction 1
9. Framing the youth migration debate
10. Migration regimes and border controls: the crisis in Europe 15
11. Dilemmas and conflicts in the legal system 39
12. Caring for and about unaccompanied migrant youth 77
13. Exploring migrant youth identities
14. Preface to Section 2: Voices of separated migrant youth 105
15. Narrating the young migrant journey: themes of self-representation 115
16. From individual vulnerability to collective resistance: responding to the emotional impact of trauma on unaccompanied children seeking asylum 135
17. Spaces of belonging and social care 159
18. ‘Durable solutions’ when turning 18 187
19. International perspectives
20. A relational approach to unaccompanied minor migration, detention and legal protection in Mexico and the US 211
21. Unaccompanied migrant youth in the Nordic countries 235
22. Life (forever) on hold: unaccompanied asylumseeking minors in Australia 257
23. Conclusion 279
24. Index 289