Unaccompanied children seeking safe haven: Providing care and supporting well-being of a vulnerable population

Linton, Julie M.; Kennedy, Elizabeth G.; Shapiro, Alan; Griffin, Marsha

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.03.043

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“…This systematic review describes the complexity and variation in medical-legal partnerships for im/migrant populations in the United States. The overwhelming observation of the review is the significance of these partnerships to improve legal outcomes; ten out of ten articles that discussed the delivery of medical knowledge to legal cases described how people were more likely to receive positive legal outcomes when medical professionals contribute to legal proceedings [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. The legitimatization of trauma and persecution through medical professionals in legal spaces may also be crucial for protecting the lives of migrants who have suffered greatly in both sending and receiving communities alike [13].…”

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A Systematic Review of Medical-Legal Partnerships Serving Immigrant Communities in the United States

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Sheth

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J Immigrant Minority Health

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The medical-legal partnership addresses social and political determinants of health. Yet, relatively little is known about best practices for these two service providers collaborating to deliver integrated services, particularly to im/migrant communities. To investigate evaluations of existing medical-legal partnerships in order to understand how they function together, what they provide, and how they define and deliver equitable, integrated care. We searched five databases (PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, HeinOnline, and Nexus Uni) using search terms related to "medical-legal partnerships", "migrants", and "United States". We systematically evaluated ten themes related to how medical and legal teams interacted, were situated, organized, and who they served. Articles were published in English between 2010 and 2019; required discussion about a direct partnership between medical and legal professionals; and focused on providing clinical care and legal services to im/migrant populations. Eighteen articles met our inclusion criteria. The most common form of partnership was a model in which legal clinics make regular referrals to medical clinics, although the reverse was also common. Most services were not co-located. Partnerships often engaged in advocacy work, provided translation services, and referred clients to non-medical providers and legal services. This review demonstrates the benefits of a legal-medical partnership, such as enhancing documentation and care for im/migrants and facilitating a greater attention to political determinants of health. Yet, this review demonstrates that, despite the increasing salience of such partnership, few have written up their lessons learned and best practices.

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A Systematic Review of Medical-Legal Partnerships Serving Immigrant Communities in the United States

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Sheth

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J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…Breaking from prevailing adult languages and interpretations of children, these scholars argue that migrant youth employ personal agency to construct their worlds through their own competencies and through their relationships to adults and institutions (Christensen and James ; White et al ). Importantly, sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural geographers also situate young people's agency within specific social, political, and economic contexts across developmental time and geopolitical space (Meyer and Jepperson ; Jeffrey ; Linton et al ; Vogt ). Complementarily, the recent psychological literature examines the ways in which abuse and traumas further impact young people's opportunities and abilities to exert social agency and under what conditions (Carswell, Blackburn, and Barker ; Herz and Lalander ).…”

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A Better “Best Interests”: Immigration Policy in a Comparative Context

Statz

Heidbrink

2019

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This conceptual article examines the role and limitations of the best interests standard in international and domestic policy, with a particular focus on how the standard is implicated in the treatment of unaccompanied minors in the United States. Motivated by emergent interdisciplinary scholarship on global youth and informed by a comparative consideration of best interests across other professions, we propose a new model of best interests. This model calls for a multidimensional recognition of youths' family-, community-and decision-making contexts; acknowledgment of youths' rights; and a commitment to speaking with, rather than for, young people. What results is a novel and dynamic understanding of best interests with relevance to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

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“…Almost all of them were males (98%). 7 An increase in the number of unaccompanied children in the total share of asylum seekers in Croatia in the 2010s corresponds to trends in the Western EU countries (Menjivar and Perreira, 2017) and in the United States (Linton et al, 2018). In Croatia, for over 75% of recorded cases, the numbers refer to male population between 16 and 17 years of age, belonging to the category of the so-called adolescents or "older minors".…”

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Care for Unaccompanied Children in Croatia: The Roles and Experiences of Special Guardians

Župarić-Iljić

Mlinarić

2019

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In the period from 2011 to 2017, there was a fluctuating yet notable increase of unaccompanied minors transiting through Croatia. The 2015 and 2016 events involving the Balkan corridor included a significant number of unaccompanied and separated children, who count as vulnerable groups of refugees and migrants. State policies and measures aimed at providing care and protection to these groups include mechanisms of appointing special guardians, who are tasked with safeguarding their rights and providing general assistance within the system of care during their stay and/or during the status recognition procedure. Using a desk study of relevant accessible documents together with a thematic content analysis of 26 expert interviews that were conducted in three cycles; in 2014, 2016, and 2018 with relevant stakeholders and care providers, the authors discussed the experiences of practitioners in the field and some of the most important challenges they are facing within the special guardianship system. The general role of caregivers in the reception, integration and possible family reunification of unaccompanied children was also examined. The results suggested that due to short period of their stay in Croatia, and due to systemic insufficiencies within the system of care, the state is facing inconsistencies in the implementation of existing European Union standards and of national measures. The special guardianship care system for unaccompanied and separated children, which is moderately influenced by the 2015 and 2016 Balkan corridor experience, has been limited by lack of professional and financial resources, lack of stronger institutional support and somewhat overlapping competences of different parties in the system of care.

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Unaccompanied children seeking safe haven: Providing care and supporting well-being of a vulnerable population

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

A Systematic Review of Medical-Legal Partnerships Serving Immigrant Communities in the United States

A Systematic Review of Medical-Legal Partnerships Serving Immigrant Communities in the United States

A Better “Best Interests”: Immigration Policy in a Comparative Context

Care for Unaccompanied Children in Croatia: The Roles and Experiences of Special Guardians

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