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Wandering young people: the conditions for return. Feasibility study on the reintegration of isolated minors victims of trafficking, Spain, France, Italy, Albania, Austria, Romania

Document number
2209
Date
2009
Title
Wandering young people: the conditions for return. Feasibility study on the reintegration of isolated minors victims of trafficking, Spain, France, Italy, Albania, Austria, Romania
Author/publisher
Federation Jeunes Errants, European Forum For Urban Safety, Terre des hommes
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems,
Summary
In a case-by-case approach, our study allowed for the analysis by the project's various partners of 600 cases of minors potentially victims of trafficking. Initially it was a matter of identifying who these minors were, putting them back in their identity, history and life plan. The particular situation of these minors in fact requires appropriate responses. This can be done by proposing typologies and, for each of them, tracks for comprehension and resolution. Our categorisation was anxious to reproduce the nature of complex process of trafficking and migration, accounting for the children's histories in an overall approach. The notion of vulnerabilities is important here: identifying them can allow for understanding the sequences in an itinerary and the solutions to envisage, in particular in a perspective of return (as well as prevention of new cases of trafficking). The study also allowed for studying how these minors become integrated into the environment of different European destination cities. For it is indeed the local and/or municipal authorities who are on the front line faced with the phenomenon of minors victims of trafficking and illicit activities that ensue and occur on their territory. On this occasion, a certain number of dysfunctions were noted
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