Unaccompanied Migrant Children - Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives

International scholars from different disciplines examine the experiences of unaccompanied migrant children before, throughout, and after their journeys and analyze US and European policy changes in national and international law. Several theologians explore new approaches to a Catholic social ethics of child migration.

List of contents

Introduction

Molly Greening and Hille Haker

Part I

1. Unaccompanied

Javier Zamora

2. Childhood, Violence, and Displacement: Experiences of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children from the Perspective of Human and Legal Service Providers in North and Central America

Maria Vidal de Haymes, Adam Avrushin, and Celeste Sánchez

3. Trauma, Detachment, and Non-Belonging: The Plight of Migrant and Refugee Children

Stephanie N. Arel

4. Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Adolescents and Access to Vocational Training in Germany-with a Focus on Bavaria

Philip Anderson

Part II

5. Betraying Children's Rights: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States

Katherine Kaufka Walts

6. The Curious Case of Jane Doe

Susan Terrio

7. Human Vulnerability and Vulnerable Rights: On Children's Rights and Asylum Politics in Sweden

Elena Namli and Linde Lindkvist

Part III

8. Holy Family or Holy Child? Child Migrants as Vulnerable Agents

Cristina L.H. Traina

9. Toward a Moral Response to Unaccompanied Minors in the U.S. Context

Kristin E. Heyer

10. Justice as Responsibility to Child Migrants

Tisha Rajendra

11. Going It Alone-Political Ethics and the Rights of Unaccompanied Migrant Children

Hille Haker

About the author

Edited by Hille Haker and Molly Greening - Contributions by Philip M. Anderson; Adam Avrushin; Stephanie N. Arel; Molly Greening; Hille Haker; Kristin E. Heyer; Katherine Kaufka Walts, J.D.; Linde Lindkvist; Tisha M. Rajendra; Celeste Sánchez; Susan J. Te

Product details

• Authors: Hille Greening Haker
• Assisted by: Molly Greening (Editor), Hille Haker (Editor), Haker Hille (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2021
• EAN: 9781498574549
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7454-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, RELIGION / Ethics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Constitutional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Christian life & practice, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Migration, immigration and emigration, Religious ethics, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Central / national / federal government policies, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Central government policies, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law