Being children and undocumented in the UK: A background paper
- Document number
- 2615
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Being children and undocumented in the UK: A background paper
- Author/publisher
- ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- trafficking in children, legislation, UK, UASC, irregular migration;
- Summary
- The paper deals with the dichotomy that arises when talking about legal vs. illegal migration; the paper seeks to show how this dichotomy is oversimplified and not apliable to real life scenarios, where a migrant can be legal one day and illegal the next. Especially when talking about undocumented children the dichotomy seems useless.
The paper goes on to discuss some of the political difficulties that arises in the debate on children in migration and it outlines the legal and political context children and their families with no legal status find themselves in upon arrival in the UK.
The report furthermore focuses on access to health and education services along with employment of migrants younger than 18.
Finally the paper provides a preliminary mapping that outlines the numbers and locations of undocumented children. - Related documents