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Working to ensure safety, belonging and success for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

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Abstract

This paper considers what safety, belonging and success mean to children and young people who seek asylum alone within richer nations. These three elements are conceptualised, taking account of journeys away from their countries of origin towards a sense of ‘home’ in a new country. The conceptual map is then used to frame existing research to establish what is known, and what needs to be further examined in understanding the ways in which the three elements are manifest when permanent resettlement, temporary admission and enforced return are all possible outcomes of an asylum claim. The paper concludes that the state of knowledge is currently uncertain in relation to each element, with some good evidence of safety and belonging in the context of permanent resettlement and relatively poor understanding of success when children and young people are forced to return away from the country of asylum.

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 311-323

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Child Abuse Review (Volume 20, Issue 5)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 18/07/2011

Publication status

Published - 18/07/2011

ISSN

0952-9136

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/224853
  • Scopus: 80053328764

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