Promoting Permanency for Teens: A 50 State Review of Law and Policy

Anna Johnson, Richard Speiglman, Jane Mauldon, Bill Grimm, and Miranda Perry - National Center for Youth Law

This paper explores the diversity of U.S. state policies and practices for teens in foster care in two potentially competing areas: teens’ need for a permanent connection to a family (either their birth family, or an adoptive or guardian family), and teens’ developmental and practical needs in transitioning to legal adulthood, independence, and self-sufficiency.

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Youth on the Move: Investigating decision-making, migration trajectories and expectations of young people on the way to Italy

REACH within the framework of the Mixed Migration Platform (MMP), and in partnership with the Mixed Migration Hub (MHub)

In order to strengthen policymakers’ and humanitarian actors’ responses in countries of transit and destination, this study was designed to shed light on young people’s decision-making and preparedness levels, the mechanisms shaping their migration trajectories, and their expectations on the way to Europe.

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Psychosocial Care for Unaccompanied Minors in Europe: Is There an Economic Case? Discussion Paper

Italian Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (SISST) in partnership with Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF), SISST and TDHIF as part of the Destination Unknown campaign

This document aims to provide an overview of the scope of activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in relation to the protection of unaccompanied migrant children and support for this group.

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Interaction of international mechanisms of migrants’ rights protection: A child rights perspective

Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development
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Rights of migrant women: A child rights perspective

Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development

This paper is the fourth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016). It examines specificities affecting children on the nove and other children affected by migration related to migrants stranded in distress.

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