Unaccompanied Migrant Children (eBook)

Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives

Molly Greening, Hille Haker (Herausgeber)

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2018
268 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7453-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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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Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at the center. This volume gathers international experts from the fields of social work, social science, law, philosophy, and Catholic ethics. Social science, psychological, and social work studies, analyses of US and international law of child migration, refuge and asylum policies, and several case studies regarding law enforcement highlight the more recent shifts in policies both in the United States and Europe. The current policies are confronted with two major normative frameworks that go beyond migration laws or the international refugee and asylum provisions: the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, and the approach of the Catholic social ethics of migration.The authors address the challenges of childhood under the conditions of migration: the uprooting of lives, the journey and transition into foreign countries and cultures, and the transition into adulthood. They discern the legal provisions and obstacles of the immigration process, the securitization of the borders, and the criminalization of unaccompanied migrant children. Catholic social ethics, the theological authors argue, must offer more than its pastoral call for charity, solidarity, and compassion that is already in place, inspiring multiple Catholic organizations, groups, and individuals. The Christian emphasis on family rights and values, originating in the story of the Holy Family, is necessary, yet insufficient when children are separated from their parentsinstead, children must be recognized as vulnerable agents in their own right, and the moral dilemmas families sometimes face be acknowledged. US and European policies must be informed by the interpretation of justice, and the principle of the common good must be held against the firewalling of the West. As a political ethics, Catholic social ethics must critique and reject the use of the Christian religion for nationalist policies and depictions of migrant children as a threat to the cultural identity of Western societies.

Autor

Hille Haker is the Richard McCormick S.J. Endowed Chair of Catholic Moral Theology at Loyola University Chicago. Molly Greening is a PhD student at Loyola University Chicago in the Integrative Studies in Ethics and Theology (ISET) program.

Inhalt

IntroductionMolly Greening and Hille HakerPart I1. UnaccompaniedJavier Zamora2. Childhood, Violence, and Displacement: Experiences of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children from the Perspective of Human and Legal Service Providers in North and Central AmericaMaria Vidal de Haymes, Adam Avrushin, and Celeste Sánchez3. Trauma, Detachment, and Non-Belonging: The Plight of Migrant and Refugee Children Stephanie N. Arel4. Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Adolescents and Access to Vocational Training in Germany—with a Focus on BavariaPhilip AndersonPart II5. Betraying Children’s Rights: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United StatesKatherine Kaufka Walts6. The Curious Case of Jane DoeSusan Terrio7. Human Vulnerability and Vulnerable Rights: On Children’s Rights and Asylum Politics in SwedenElena Namli and Linde LindkvistPart III8. Holy Family or Holy Child? Child Migrants as Vulnerable AgentsCristina L.H. Traina9. Toward a Moral Response to Unaccompanied Minors in the U.S. ContextKristin E. Heyer10. Justice as Responsibility to Child MigrantsTisha Rajendra11. Going It Alone—Political Ethics and the Rights of Unaccompanied Migrant ChildrenHille Haker

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2018
• Co-Autor: Philip M. Anderson, Elena Namli, Tisha M. Rajendra, Celeste Sanchez, Susan J. Terrio, Cristina L.H. Traina, Javier Zamora, Stephanie N. Arel, Adam Avrushin, Molly Greening, Hille Haker, Maria Vidal De Haymes, Kristin E. Heyer, J.D. Katherine Kaufka Walts, Linde Lindkvist
• Zusatzinfo: 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Catholic social ethics • Child Development • Child migration • children • Deportation • ethics • holy family • Migration ethics • Refugee crisis • UN • Unaccompanied migrant children • United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child • Universal convention of the rights of the child • US Child law • US Immigration law
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7453-X / 149857453X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7453-2 / 9781498574532