This special issue of the Children & Youth Services Review, Volume 92, focuses on unaccompanied immigrant children throughout the world, with a particular focus on the U.S. and European contexts.
Articles in this issue include:
- Assisting the least among us: Social work's historical response to unaccompanied immigrant and refugee youth
- Addressing the limitations of age determination for unaccompanied minors: A way forward
- A critical analysis of the creation of separated care structures for unaccompanied refugee minors
- Circulation of care among unaccompanied migrant youth from Guatemala
- The shifting boundaries of “best interest”: Sheltering unaccompanied Central American minors in transit through Mexico
- Creating reasons to stay? Unaccompanied youth migration, community-based programs, and the power of “push” factors in El Salvador
- Unaccompanied immigrant children in long term foster care: Identifying needs and best practices from a child welfare perspective
- Treacherous crossings, precarious arrivals: Responses to the influx of unaccompanied minors in the Hudson Valley
- Educating unaccompanied immigrant children in Chicago, Illinois: A case study
- Foster care, recognition and transitions to adulthood for unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in England and Ireland
- Unaccompanied migrant minors: A comparison of new Italian interventions models
- Mutual benefits: The lessons learned from a community based participatory research project with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and foster carers
- Sexual abuse and exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children in Greece: Identifying risk factors and gaps in services during the European migration crisis
- Unaccompanied children seeking safe haven: Providing care and supporting well-being of a vulnerable population
- Running to stand still: Trauma symptoms, coping strategies, and substance use behaviors in unaccompanied migrant youth