Unaccompanied Young Migrants: Identity, Care and Justice
Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta, and Katie Willis
Abstract
Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, this book explores in depth the journeys unaccompanied child migrants take through the UK legal and care systems. Arriving with little agency, the book considers what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen. Through international studies, and crucially of the young migrants themselves, the book examines the narratives they present, and the frameworks of culture and legislation into which they are placed. Challenging existing ... More
Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, this book explores in depth the journeys unaccompanied child migrants take through the UK legal and care systems. Arriving with little agency, the book considers what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen. Through international studies, and crucially of the young migrants themselves, the book examines the narratives they present, and the frameworks of culture and legislation into which they are placed. Challenging existing policy, it questions, from a social justice perspective, what the treatment of this group tells us about our systems and the cultural presuppositions on which they depend. Contributors are researchers and practitioners in film-making, human geography, law, psychology, psychotherapy, social work and sociology,
Keywords:
asylum,
human rights,
narratives,
social justice,
unaccompanied child migrants
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447331865 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2019 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447331865.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Sue Clayton, editor
Goldsmiths University of London
Anna Gupta, editor
Royal Holloway, University of London
Katie Willis, editor
Royal Holloway, University of London
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