“…Nevertheless, despite decades of efforts to mainstream and implement rights of young migrants through policy work and governance institutions, the simultaneous enforcement of restrictive immigration politics by recipient states, primarly democracies of the Global North, has undercut the possibility of realizing rights of young migrants (Bhabha, 2009(Bhabha, , 2019Bhabha et al, 2018;Josefsson, 2017b;Sedmak et al, 2018;Smyth, 2014). Scholarship has shown how child rights principles such as the best interest principle not only have poor normative force in asylum procedures, but moreover can be interpreted and used by migration authorities and courts in such a way as to enforce and legitimize deportations in the name of protection or family reunification (Anderson, 2012;Josefsson, 2017a, Lind, 2019, Sedmak et al, 2019.…”