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Breaking Down Barriers to Rights for Unaccompanied Children in Migration: Why Intersectional Discrimination Matters

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Breaking Down Barriers to Rights for Unaccompanied Children in Migration: Why Intersectional Discrimination Matters

Author: laire Raissian
Publisher: Bristol University Press
ISBN: 9781529244670

Published In: January 2027
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Although there is no precise figure reflecting the number of children on the move globally, almost 400,000 unaccompanied children applied for asylum in Europe between 2014 and 2024. As ‘foreign’ children without families or caregivers, this group are often racialised and dehumanised and face unique challenges to accessing their rights in receiving states, particularly since 2015.

This book examines the situation of unaccompanied children in reception facilities and border posts in the European Union, exploring the discriminatory barriers to rights that are erected by the EU and its member states when taking a migration management, rather than child rights-based approach to reception for this group. Chapters explore structural issues, arguing that intersectional discrimination is behind the failure to implement fundamental human rights for unaccompanied migrant children in the region, addressing one of the most important contemporary issues in migration and refugee law today.

1. Introduction and Key Concepts

2. Positioning the Unaccompanied Migrant Child in Legal Frameworks: Reception Rights and Non-Discrimination

3. Invisible Children: Initial Reception for Unaccompanied Children in Europe

4. Political Pronouncements and Legal Lacunae: Structural Discrimination in the EU and UK

5. Breaking Down Barriers to Rights for Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Why Intersectional Discrimination Matters