Education Uprooted: For every migrant, refugee and displaced child, education
This report provides essential data and information on educational challenges faced by nearly 50 million uprooted children around the world.
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Harrowing Journeys: Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation
This joint report from UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) explores in detail survey data from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, focusing on adolescents and youth on the move from Africa and Asia.
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Beyond Borders: How to make the global compacts on migration and refugees work for uprooted children
Beyond Borders: How to make the global compacts on migration and refugees work for uprooted children
This report highlights initiatives underway that work towards addressing the care and protection of refugee, migrant and displaced children – initiatives that can be replicated around the world.
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A call to action: Protecting children on the move starts with better data
In this call to action, UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, Eurostat and OECD show how crucial data are to understanding the patterns of global migration and developing policies to support vulnerable groups like children.
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Breaking social barriers: A participatory observation of social-media interactions in an undergraduate-student mentorship of at-risk youth at a foster care institution in Puerto Rico
This thesis paper employed qualitative methods to capture the online interaction of undergraduate volunteers as part of an undergraduate-student mentorship program. This program was developed to provide mentorship and tutoring for at-risk-youth at a foster care institution.
Care leavers in early adulthood: How do they fare in England, Finland and Germany?
This paper examines the longer term outcomes of young people who experienced out of home care (OHC) as children, in Britain, Germany and Finland, countries characterised by different welfare regimes.
Care-‘less’: exploring the interface between child care and parental control in the context of child rights for workers in children’s homes in Ghana
This study explored how employed caregivers experience the interface between child care, parental control and child rights in the context of Children’s Homes in Ghana.
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Our Lives Our Care: Looked after children’s views on their well-being in 2017
This report from the University of Bristol School for Poicy Studies and Coram Voice presents findings from a 2017 survey, in which 2,263 looked after children and young people from 16 local authorities in the United Kingdom completed the ‘Your Life, Your Care’ survey to determine their subjective, self-reported wellbeing.
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Immigration Enforcement & the Child Welfare System
This report from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center of the United States highlights the connections between US immigration policy and the child welfare system, particularly the criminalization of undocumented immigrants and its impact on foster care in the US.
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Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Among Youths Living in Group Care Homes: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
The objective of this study was to determine if the Power Through Choices (PTC) intervention can increase the use of birth control and reduce pregnancy among system-involved youths living in group care homes.