Protecting Migrant Children

Edited by Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia and Lenni B. Benson, Professor of Law, New York Law School, US

Contents:

Foreword: the Plight of the Migrant Child

1. Central Issues in the Protection of Child Migrants
Mary Crock and Lenni B. Benson

PART I DISPLACEMENT STORIES
2. The Where, When and How of Children on the Move
Arezo Malakooti

3. Why they Leave: Latin American Immigrant Youths and their Quest for SurvivaI
Isabel Martinez

PART II.1 PROTECTION FRAMEWORKS: INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL FRAMEWORKS
4. First Things First: International Law and the Protection of Migrant Children
Mary Crock and Hannah Martin

5. Children and the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
Mary Crock and Phoebe Yule

6. Migrant Children and the United Nations Protocols against Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons
Andreas Schloenhardt and Joseph Lelliott

7. Immigration Control and the Best Interests of the Child in Europe
Carmelo Danisi (with Mary Crock)

8. Under Siege: Alternative Care for Urban Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Children in Kenya
Agnes Olusese, Shamm Petros and Edwin Odhiambo Abuya

9. Defending Migrant Children and Youth in the Inter-American System
Carlos Holguín and Kavita Kapur

PART II.2 Protection Frameworks: Case Studies
10. Child Migration and Trafficking in South-East Asia
Kathryn E. van Doore

11. Regulating Child Labour in China: A Historical Perspective of Internal Child Migration
Mimi Zou

PART III PROTECTING CHILD MIGRANTS: DOMESTIC LAWS
12. Protecting Migrant Children in the United Kingdom
Catriona Jarvis and Syd Bolton

13. The Legal Treatment of Immigrant Children in the United States
David B. Thronson

14. Children and Refugee Law in Australia and the United States
Timnah Baker and Kate Bones

15. Protection Measures for Unaccompanied Child Migrants in Canada
Geraldine Sadoway

PART IV PROCESS MATTERS
16. ‘These Don’t Look Like Children to Me’: Age Assessment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children
Mary Anne Kenny and Maryanne Loughry

17. Procedure Deficits in Protection for Immigrant Children in the United States
Lenni B. Benson and Claire R. Thomas

18. Asylum-Seeking Children and the Australian Protection Visa Process
Savitri Taylor

PART V CHILDREN AND IMMIGRATION DETENTION
19. Detention as a Last Resort: The Implications of the Human Rights Committee’s General Comment No 35
Gerald L. Neuman

20. The Impact of Detention on the Health, Wellbeing and Development of Children: Findings from the Second National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Gillian Triggs

21. The Rise and Rise of Mandatory Immigration Detention
Daniel Ghezelbash

PART VI CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
22. Nowhere to Turn: the Protection Needs of Children Defecting from Criminal Gangs
Farrin R. Anello

23. Don’t Look Behind You: Unaccompanied and Separated Children Who Have Participated in Armed Conflict in South Sudan
Kasey Tyler and Shelly Whitman

24. In Search of Solutions For Unaccompanied Children Fleeing Central America
Pamela Goldberg

Index