The Family Dance: Ambiguous Loss, Meaning Making, and the Psychological Family in Foster Care

Monique B. Mitchell - Journal of Family Theory and Review

This article explores how a child's psychological family can be affected, challenged, and transformed in the foster care system. When placed into foster care, children are often disconnected from many significant relationships, especially familial relationships (e.g., parents, siblings).

Refugee & Migrant Crisis Child Protection Response: Protecting refugee and migrant children on the move

Child Protection Hub, UNICEF, and Terre des Hommes

This capacity building package was developed to build the capacity of those responding to the refugee and migrant crisis to be able to address child protection concerns within the unique settings of the largely transit countries, in particular Croatia, Serbia and the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (tfYROM). The course book contains four core modules: Block A – Cultural Sensitivity; Block B – Impact of Being a Refugee/Migrant on Children; Block C – Working Together for the Benefit of Children; and Block D – Safeguarding.  Each block takes about one and one-half hours.  

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Transnational ties and the health of sub-Saharan African migrants: The moderating role of gender and family separation

Patience A. Afulani, Jacqueline M. Torres, May Sudhinaraset, Joseph Asunka

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.

The Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Social Exclusion

Ruth Levitas, Christina Pantazis, Eldi Fahmy, David Gordon, Eva Lloyd and Demi Patsios

This project reviews existing sources on multi-dimensional disadvantage or severe forms of social exclusion characterised as ‘deep exclusion’ for the purpose of recommending possibilities for secondary analysis of existing data sets to explore the dynamics of ‘deep exclusion’.  It also ident

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The drivers of social exclusion Review of the literature for the Social Exclusion Unit in the Breaking the Cycle series

Jonathan Bradshaw, Peter Kemp, Sally Baldwin and Abigail Rowe - Office of the Prime Minister

This document is a literature review for the purpose of determining the drivers of social exclusion.  Its objectives were to: 1) determine the current drivers; 2) determine emerging drivers that might have a future impact on social inclusion; 3) Assess the relative strength of drivers.

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The duality of children’s political agency in deportability

Jacob Lind - Sage Publications

This article discusses how children’s political agency manifests in everyday life. It shows how children who become aware of their legal status as ‘deportable’ reject this subject position and offer their own definitions of who they are and where they belong. Simultaneously, it is argued that children with varying degrees of knowledge about their legal status also express political agency through their struggle to sustain the inclusion they experience.

Moving Beyond Trauma: Child Migrants and Refugees in the United States – Executive Summary

David Murphey, PhD and August Aldebot-Green, MA ChildTrends

This is the executive summary for a longer report, which gives an estimate of the number of immigrant and refugee children who will enter the United States in 2016, where they come from, and the traumas they face. It includes recommendations for policy and practice.

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Iron status of young children from immigrant families

Natasha Ruth Saunders, Patricia C Parkin, Catherine S Birken, Jonathon L Maguire, Cornelia M Borkhoff - Archives of Disease in Childhood

This study investigated whether there is an association between family immigrant status and iron stores and evaluated whether or not there were any known dietary, environmental or biological determinants of low iron status that influenced this relationship.  

The Politics of Deservingness Comparing Youth-Centered Immigrant Mobilizations in the Netherlands and the United States

Walter J. Nicholls, Marcel Maussen, Laura Caldas de Mesquita

This article discusses the legal residency advocacy campaign that occurred in the late 2000s in the Netherlands and the United States on behalf of immigrant youths with precarious legal status.