New parliamentary bill will help ensure the protection of unaccompanied refugee minors who enter Italy.

A closer look at tends to be one of the more contentious issues surrounding the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, child migrants.

This study explores social, environmental, individual and family characteristics associated with emotional and behavioral difficulties among homeless children living in the Paris region. 

This article in the Guardian reports that French children’s services are struggling to cope with a dramatic surge in unaccompanied refugee children who have abandoned plans to travel to the UK and now want to remain in France.

This paper examines the association between cross-border ties and cross-border separation with the health of sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrant adults living in metropolitan France using data from the nationally representative “Trajectoire et Origines” survey.

SOS Children’s Villages is organising the Conference “Children’s Rights in Alternative Care: Walk the Talk!” taking place in Paris on 8^th November, under the patronage of Ms Laurence Rossignol, Minister for the Family, Children and Women’s Rights. 

This video from the BBC tells the story of a 16 year-old unaccompanied minor from Syria, named Omar. The video features Omar’s illustrations of his journey from Syria to Calais.

Providing educative help at home means that professionals have to enter into the intimacy of families and share daily tasks often for a long time. Family support workers spend many hours alongside parents, helping them with their domestic and parenting tasks. 

 This paper reports findings from an ethnographic study in which the researcher notes and gathers personal accounts relating to material and non-material exchanges between professionals and parents.

Over a week ago, an unaccompanied eight year-old boy was placed on a plane to Paris from Comoros, an island nation off the coast of southeastern Africa, and was detained at the airport in Paris for more than a week when officials discovered he had false travel documents, according to this article from the Guardian.