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Protecting migrant children : in search of best practice / edited by Mary Crock (Professor of Public Law, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia), and Lenni B. Benson (Professor of Law, New York Law School, US).
Crock, Mary editor.; Benson, Lenni B., 1958- editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2018
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Protecting migrant children : in search of best practice / edited by Mary Crock (Professor of Public Law, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia), and Lenni B. Benson (Professor of Law, New York Law School, US).
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Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.
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With unprecedented numbers of children on the move in search of safety, Protecting Migrant Children explores the complex legal and human rights issues that arise when children cross borders as migrants. It critically examines the strengths and weaknesses of international and domestic laws with the aim of identifying best practice for migrant children. The book brings together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of experts to assess the nature and root causes of child migration in different parts of the world, featuring national and comparative case studies in Australia, Canada, Europe, the United States and parts of Asia and Africa. The contributors address systematically the many challenges experienced and posed by young people who cross borders in search of protection, or a better quality of life. Identifying the many universal issues facing states who play host to these children, the book lays the foundations for new paradigms in law, policy and practice in the reception and management of child migrants, refugees and victims of trafficking. Topical and engaging, this book is an important resource for academics and students in human rights law; migration and refugee law; the administrative and procedural issues of refugee law, and comparative law; as well as in the social sciences and health sciences. Policymakers and workers within the community sector will also find this book stimulating and informative.
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Contents: Preface
1. Central issues in the protection of child migrants / Mary Crock and Lenni Benson
Part I
2. The where, when and how of children on the move / Arezo Malakooti
3. Why they leave: latin american immigrant youths and their quest for survivai / Isabel Martinez
Part II
Protection frameworks
II.1
International and regional frameworks
4. First things first: international law and the protection of migrant child children / Mary Crock and Hannah Martin
5. Children and the convention relating to the status of refugees / Mary Crock and Phoebe Yule
6. Migrant children and the United Nations protocols against smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons / Andreas Schloenhardt and Joseph Lelliott
7. Immigration control and the best interests of the child in Europe / Carmelo Danisi (with Mary Crock)
8. Under siege: alternative care for urban unaccompanied and separated refugee children in Kenya / Agnes Olusese, Shamm Petros and Edwin Odhiambo Abuya
9. Defending migrant children and youth in the Inter-American system / Carlos Holguin and Kavita Kapur
II.2
case studies
10. Child migration and trafficking in South East Asia / Kathryn van Doore
11. Regulating child labour in China: a historical perspective of internal child migration / Mimi Zou
Part III Protecting child migrants - domestic laws
12. Protecting migrant children in the United Kingdom / Catriona Jarvis and Sydney Bolton
13. The legal treatment of immigrant children in the United States / David Thronson
14. Children and refugee law in Australia and the United States / Kate Bones and Timnah Baker
15. Protection measures for unaccompanied child migrants in Canada / Geraldine Sadoway
Part IV
Process matters
16. "These don't look like children to me": age assessment of unaccompanied and separated children / Mary Anne Kenny and Maryanne Loughry
17. Procedure deficits in protection for immigrant children in the United States / Lenni Benson and Claire Thomas
18. Asylum seeking children and the Australian protection visa process / Savitri Taylor
Part V Children and immigration detention
19. Detention as a last resort: the implications of the Human Rights Committee's general comment no 35 / Gerald Neuman
20. The impact of detention on the health, wellbeing and development of children: findings from the second national inquiry into children in immigration detention / Gillian Triggs
21. The rise and rise of mandatory immigration detention / Daniel Ghezelbash
Part VI Challenges and solutions
22. Fleeing the maras from within: asylum claims by children defecting from criminal gangs / Farrin Anello
23. Don't look behind you: unaccompanied and separated children who have participated in armed conflict in South Sudan / Kasey Tyler and Shelly Whitman
24. In search of solutions for unaccompanied children fleeing Central America / Pamela Goldberg
Index.

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