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In this workshop Family for Every Child members Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen (The Refugee Council of Lower Saxony, Germany), Programma Integra (Italy) and METAdrasi (Greece) share their experience around supporting unaccompanied minors, with For Our Children (FoC) in Bulgaria. They share top tips with FoC as they navigate the arrival of unaccompanied minors fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, and find ways to support them.
Abstract: This article analyzes developments in the forms of social work with young refugees and the legal framing of such work in Germany from 1990 to the present. In particular, it addresses the reactions of politicians and the child and youth welfare system to the sharp rise in the number of refugees in 2015 and 2016, and the concomitant significant increase in the number of unaccompanied minor refugees. It underlines the need for an approach based on children’s rights, and the necessity for social workers, especially those involved in helping youth, to resist the policies of deterrence…
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The research findings outlined in this report follow on from Refugee Rights Europe’s study relating to the situation in Paris in January 2017. One year on from the pilot study, the situation remains critical for refugees and displaced people sleeping on the streets of Paris. Despite promises from President Macron to get refugees “off the streets, out of the woods” by the end of 2017 and the continued eviction of makeshift settlements in Paris, Refugee Rights Europe’s research shows that a large number are still sleeping on the streets of the city.
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Six weeks after the Calais migrant camp was demolished, unaccompanied minors scattered around France are still waiting to hear of their fate from the Home Office. The video features one young refugee who fled death in Darfur desperate to be reunited with his brother living in the United Kingdom.
A slim and chilling new book has ignited a public debate in France on the country's refusal to bring back hundreds of French children who were left in Kurdish camps in Syria.
This article from The Observers reports that unaccompanied migrant children in Paris are housed under unsanitary conditions while they wait for their files to be processed.
RT reports UNICEF criticized German government for providing insufficient housing and education for child refugees.
According to this article from The Australian approximately 1,000 children from the “Jungle Camp” in Calais remain in limbo in France.
Dozens of children are seeking a judicial review in the UK High Court early next year.
This article in the Guardian reports that French children’s services are struggling to cope with a dramatic surge in unaccompanied refugee children who have abandoned plans to travel to the UK and now want to remain in France.
In the past three months, staff employed by the main French charity working with refugee children in Calais have had to turn away between 15 and 35 unaccompanied refugee children every day because they have no beds for them in the emergency shelter. According to the director of the charity running the child refugee centre, since July around 95% of the…