Separated, asylum-seeking children in European Union Member States. Comparative report
- Document number
- 2619
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Separated, asylum-seeking children in European Union Member States. Comparative report
- Author/publisher
- The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- This report examines the experiences and views of eparated, asylumseeking children and those of adults responsible for their care across 12 European Union Member States. It addresses the need to incorporate children‟s views and accounts of their experiences into work that seeks to inform policy action. The FRA research results fill a gap in current knowledge about how separated, asylum-seeking children from different national, ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds live in the European Union, by asking them directly about their opinions and experiences. It is based on fieldwork research which was outsourced to the International Organisation of Migration (IOM). The fieldwork research included 336 separated children from different countries - mainly originating from Afghanistan (22%), Morocco (just over 10%), Somalia (also just over 10%) and Iraq (9%) - as well as 302 adults responsible for assisting or working with these children, comprising care workers, social workers, teachers, psychologists, health specialists, legal guardians, legal practitioners, government officials - including law enforcement officers - interpreters and researchers. The fieldwork was carried out during 2009 in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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