Unaccompanied Migrant Children : Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives.

Cover -- Unaccompanied Migrant Children -- Unaccompanied Migrant Children Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Going it Alone: Experiences and Social Responses -- Chapter 1 -- Unaccompanied -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- i. -- Note -- Chapter 2 -- Childhood, Violence, and Displacement -- Factors Contributing to Contemporary Unaccompanied Child Migration to the United States -- Childhood as Analytical Frameworks -- Current Study -- Findings and Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- Trauma, Detachment, and Non-Belonging -- Overview of Attachment Theory -- Severed Attachment and Trauma -- Non-belonging and the Desire for the Group -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Adolescents and Access to Vocational Training in Germany-with a Focus on Bavaria -- Culturally Sensitive Work Approaches -- Unaccompanied Minors Arriving in Germany: the Social and Educational Situation -- The Unaccompanied Minors' View -- Ongoing Challenges and Potential Remedies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Children's Rights? -- Chapter 5 -- Betraying Children's Rights -- Children's Rights in the United States -- Arriving Unaccompanied: Immigrant Minors in the United States -- Apprehension, Adjudication, and Repatriation of Unaccompanied Minors and the Absence of the Best Interests Standard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- The Curious Case of Jane Doe -- "I Stand with Dreamers," Chuck Schumer, January 18, 2018 -- Federal Custody for Unaccompanied Alien Children -- Trump Administration Changes -- Jane Doe's Constitutional Rights? -- Jane Doe in ORR Custody -- Alien Juvenile or Pregnant Child? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7.

Human Vulnerability and Vulnerable Rights -- Two Conflicting Trends? -- Juridification of Human Rights and Vulnerability -- Children's Rights as Part of the Problem: Vulnerability as a Function of Age -- Beyond Vulnerability? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Catholic Ethics and Child Migration -- Chapter 8 -- Holy Family or Holy Child? -- Rhetoric that Conceals -- Child Migrants as Vulnerable Agents -- Modes of Vulnerability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- Toward a Moral Response to Unaccompanied Minors in the US Context -- Recontextualization: The Recent History -- The Power of Rhetorical Framing: Narratives Old and New -- Structures of Interdependence -- Resources from Catholic Migration Ethics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- Justice as Responsibility to Child Migrants -- Justice as Responsibility to Relationships -- A Narrative of Failures of Responsibility: The United States and Central America -- Responsibility to Historical Injustice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 -- Going It Alone -- The Political Shift from Political Realism to a National Popular Politics -- In Defense of Human Dignity and Human Rights -- The Projection of Children as Threat to Security -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

International scholars from different disciplines examine the experiences of unaccompanied migrant children before, throughout, and after their journeys and analyze US and European policy changes in national and international law. Several theologians explore new approaches to a Catholic social ethics of child migration.

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