As international migration leads to significant numbers of children with foreign backgrounds around the world, this article reveals the emerging research agenda around the controversial practice of cross-border placement of children in care. It reviews existing research, focusing on cross-border kinship care and intensive pedagogy placements. Cross-border out-of-home child care is increasingly promoted and institutionalised. Yet, there are persisting concerns about responsibility sharing, a patchy legal framework, implementation, and little data comparing outcomes of placements in-country and abroad. The article concludes by noting implications for social work and promising directions of empirical investigations.
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