Undocumented and unaccompanied: Children of migration in the European Union and the United States

C Menjívar, KM Perreira - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Thousands of minors are migrating unaccompanied to high-income countries. This special
issue focuses on unaccompanied migrant minors from the Global South to Europe and the …

Skeletal evidence of structural violence among undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America

JS Beatrice, A Soler, RC Reineke… - American journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives We examine the prevalence and sociodemographic risk factors of skeletal
indicators of stress in forensic samples of undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central …

Protective resources, legal status, and the integration of US immigrants entering as unaccompanied children

KM Donato, N Lopez - American Behavioral Scientist, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Prior studies of US immigrant integration and well-being assume that immigrants arrive as
adults rather than as children. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in 2021 and 2022 …

K'iche', mam, and Nahua migrant youth navigating colonial codes of power

DW Barillas Chon - Urban Education, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how three recently arrived Indigenous male migrant youth from
Guatemala and Mexico in an urban high school in the Pacific Northwest understood and …

[PDF][PDF] Illegality: A contemporary portrait of immigration

RG Gonzales, S Raphael - … : The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of …, 2017 - rsfjournal.org
roberto G. Gonzales and steven raphael would have provided relief to nearly five million
undocumented immigrants (Capps et al. 2016). The decision was a mere nine words long …

Don't Forget the Children! A Review of the Consequences of Natural Disasters and Epidemics on Childhood Health and Mortality in the Past

K Squires, E Hookway, N Márquez-Grant - Childhood in the Past, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Natural disasters, pandemics, and epidemics have devastating impacts on communities.
Poverty, famine, ill health, social isolation, and death are some of the consequences of such …

“Estaba bien chiquito”(I was very young): The transition to adulthood and “illegality” of the Mexican and Central American 1.25 generation

DX Diaz-Strong - Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Knowledge on the transition to adulthood of undocumented immigrants arriving in childhood
primarily derives from the experiences of minors arriving below the age of 13 years—or the …

Addressing the Surge in Unaccompanied Migrant Children

C Amuedo-Dorantes, J Bucheli, M Lopez - AEA Papers and …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Unaccompanied migrant children (UMC) account for a growing share of apprehensions
along the US-Mexico border. Contrary to past UMC flows, which were primarily comprised of …

Reunifying or leaving a child behind: how official and unofficial state selection shape family immigration in France

J Descamps, C Beauchemin - Journal of Ethnic and Migration …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper aims to analyse how State policies, on the book and in practice, shape family
reunification. It focuses on child migration under constraint in France, by analysing the timing …

Educating unaccompanied immigrant children in Chicago, Illinois: A case study

MV de Haymes, A Avrushin, D Coleman - Children and Youth Services …, 2018 - Elsevier
Very little is known about how unaccompanied immigrant children (UIC) are faring and
integrating into US communities, or about the services they utilize and their outstanding …