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Many Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) are living in low-income countries and little research has been done to understand this population in these particular settings. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and resilience in Eritrean unaccompanied refugee minors living with foster parents in Sudan.
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Forty-five Eritrean URM completed the Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-25 and Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) on the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and resilience, and an open-ended question about daily…
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The concept of the best interests of the child comes into tension with premodern Islamic law with respect to the issue of adoption because Islamic law does not allow a child to take the name or inheritance of her or his non-biological parents. Many scholars and policymakers have considered premodern Islamic juristic discourse to violate the child’s best interests as it creates a number of disadvantaged legal categories of children in Islamic law, all while prohibiting adoption. In this chapter, I show the ways in which premodern Muslim jurists and judges (with…
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Around the world, more than eight million girls and boys grow up for long periods of their lives not in their own families but in residential institutions. Children are placed in residential institutions because they live in harsh social conditions due to death of one or both parents, parent's illness, adverse economic circumstances, unknown parenthood, cracked family, parent's imprisonment and family inability to provide proper care. Quality of life concerns the satisfaction of individual's needs and demands, which are necessary for his satisfaction with life. Hence, this…
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This paper explores how unaccompanied refugee children from Syria made their way to destination countries and how they become unaccompanied and the consequences of being unaccompanied. This paper is based on interviews with Syrian child refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and aid workers of international organizations who provide support with child refugees. The long-standing conflict has caused Syrian children to suffer immensely, both physically and psychologically. Data show that majority of the children became conflict orphan and left Syria. Some reported that they…
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Objectives To examine the mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors prospectively during the asylum-seeking process, with a focus on specific stages in the asylum process, such as age assessment, placement in a supportive or non-supportive facility and final decision on the asylum applications.
Design This was a 2½ year follow-up study of unaccompanied minors (UM) seeking asylum in Norway. Data were collected within three weeks (n=138) and at 4 months (n=101), 15 months (n=84) and 26 months (n=69) after arrival.
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Background: There is a societal need to institutionalize child protection mechanisms and services for monitoring of children subjected to abuse and exploitation. The aim of the study was to assess the occurrence of violence among orphaned children and its consequences on their physical and psychological health status.
Subjects & methods: a descriptive analytical study design was utilized at three randomly selected orphanage institutions-Menofia Governorate, Egypt. All children and adolescents from 6-18 years residents at the selected orphanage home (n=125) were included…