Children on the move

Governments are challenged to uphold the rights and provide essential services for growing numbers of child migrants. Our featured experts provide their perspectives.

Content Summary: assure rights despite migration status; tension between protective and participatory principles; risk continuum before-during-after; smuggling/trafficking nexus; children left to negotiate immigration on their own (US); avoiding expedited processes-specific risk to children of deportation; obligation to reunify families - correct default mode?; conducting quality best interests assessment; children’s rights not featuring in European immigration policy debates – becoming a security driven process ; when protection can be a burden.