The article argues that the Norwegian policy concerning unaccompanied minors (UAMs), by denying family reunion, will prevent future child migration. It argues that the Norwegian interpretation and implementation of the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the child serves the best interests of the state rather than the children. There is a discussion of bureaucratic procedures that turn individual children into a “judicial and generalized prototype that appears to have the same interests as the immigration authorities.” The article argues that in Norway, the best interests principle is used as immigratioon control.
