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Eritrean Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Transition: A Focused Ethnography of Challenges and Needs [PDF]

Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 2019
In the Netherlands, the largest group of unaccompanied refugee minors originates from Eritrea. These minors have been exposed to several distressing events and face psychosocial challenges and drastic changes within their social-ecological environment upon arrival in the Netherlands.
Carlijn M VAN ES, Marieke Sleijpen, Trudy Mooren   +2 more
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Multilayered Ethics in Research Involving Unaccompanied Refugee Minors [PDF]

Journal of Refugee Studies, 2015
Research articles about unaccompanied refugee minors (UM) have rarely addressed ethical issues. This is remarkable, given UM's specific, marginalized and vulnerable position within society, and the growing interest and developments in research ethics in refugee research.
Vervliet, Marianne, Rousseau, Cécile, Broekaert, Eric, Derluyn, Ilse   +3 more
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ChildMove: Transit experiences and mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors [PDF]

European Journal of Public Health, 2020
Abstract Since early 2015, the media continuously confront us with images of refugee children drowning in the Mediterranean, surviving in appalling conditions in camps or walking across Europe. Within this group of fleeing children, a considerable number is travelling without parents, the unaccompanied refugee minors ...
Derluyn, Ilse, Verhaeghe, Floor
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Mental health problems, traumatic experiences and subjective treatment goals of treatment-seeking refugee minors [PDF]

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Background: Forced displacement is globally increasing, with children and adolescents being particularly affected. Exposure to armed conflict, the flight itself and challenges of settling in new environments put them at risk of experiencing potentially ...
Joschi Dewitz, Dana Barthel, Lars Dumke, Areej Zindler, Levente Kriston, Lea Schumacher   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

CHALLENGES FACED BY UNACCOMPANIED MINOR-REFUGEES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2015
This qualitative study explored the experiences of unaccompanied minor-refugees from Zimbabwe to South Africa. Ten (10) participants, from a shelter in Limpopo Province, were selected using purposive sampling.
Lungile Magqibelo, Marcel Londt, Shiron September, Nicolette Roman   +3 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors and the Swedish Labour Market [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe. The number of children who arrives is increasing fast. The Swedish experiences are therefore of great interest also for other countries.
Celikaksoy, Aycan, Wadensjö, Eskil
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The situation of unaccompanied minors in Romania in the course of Europe’s refugee crisis

Social Work and Society, 2017
This paper discusses the legal-juridical framework that outlines the situation of unaccompanied refugee minors (UAM) in Romania. It reports on the numbers of underage migrant children in Romania, it examines some of the official ways of entry and ...
Raluca Bejan, Andreea Iorga Curpan, Olga Amza   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Examining suicidality and associated risk factors among refugee children and adolescents in Uganda [PDF]

BMC Psychiatry
Background Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people globally. Although suicidality has been studied in various populations, limited research has focused on refugee youth in low and middle-income countries.
Herbert E. Ainamani, Anne Wanjiru Mbwayo, Muthoni Mathai, Linnea Karlsson, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Jonathan Hall   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Self-harm among unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugee minors: protocol for a global systematic review of prevalence, methods and characteristics

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Asylum seekers and refugees are at an elevated risk of self-harm, with younger age and traumatic experiences found to further increase such risk.
Rohan Borschmann, Kyli Hedrick
doaj   +1 more source

Multimodal co-therapy for unaccompanied minors: a qualitative study

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2022
Background Unaccompanied refugee minors—or unaccompanied minors—are children and adolescents who have been separated from parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult. Unaccompanied minors are a vulnerable population, with numerous
Sélim Benjamin Guessoum, Sevan Minassian, Pauline de Staël, Fatima Touhami, Madeline DiGiovanni, Rahmeth Radjack, Marie Rose Moro, Laelia Benoit   +7 more
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