Unaccompanied Children as Illegal Immigrants in the United States

This chapter from /Vulnerable Children and the Law: International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children’s Rights/, provides an overview of unaccompanied children in the United States, discusses the legal process, including issues of custody and legal representation, which the children must face in the United States as immigrants without status, and focuses on some of the social welfare issues, such as trauma, that must be dealt with once the children are in the United States. (Description from source)

Language(s):
English

Resource Type(s):
Chapter in a Book

Publisher/Producer: London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Publication Date: 2012

Author(s):
Sheehan, Rosemary (Ed.)
Rhoades, Helen (Ed.)
Stanley, Nicky (Ed.)

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