Unaccompanied children lacking protection in Europe
- Document number
- 3010
- Date
- 2013
- Title
- Unaccompanied children lacking protection in Europe
- Author/publisher
- La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- EU law, Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- migration, human rights, unaccompanied children, child protection, children's rights
- Summary
- This document contains the final comparative report of the PUCAFREU research action and is subdivided into three parts. The first chapter includes a brief introduction justifying the pertinence and interest of the exploratory research conducted within the framework of the PUCAFREU project. A second chapter presents the common methodological framework implemented in the four countries involved in the project (Belgium, France, Italy and Spain) that are considered as destination and/or transit countries for the migration of unaccompanied children. The third chapter, devoted to the comparative presentation of the main results of the fieldwork research, is divided into four sections: (1) Life conditions of unaccompanied children lacking protection and access to social rights; (2) Experience within child protection services; (3) Reasons explaining the situation of lack of protection; (4) Mobility as a form of unaccompanied children’s agency.
One of the main aims of this research was to obtain the unaccompanied children’s perception of the situation of lack of protection they were currently in or had previously experienced. To add value to this objective, we have reproduced a selection of excerpts from the interviews. It must be noted that many of these excerpts have been translated into English whilst trying to render the nuances of the interviewees’ discourses as much as possible.
The complete report can be downloaded here. The national reports are available as follows: France report (in French), Belgium report (in French and in Dutch) and Italian report (in Italian).