The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors [electronic resource] : Perspectives and Case Studies on Migrant Children / edited by Yvonne Vissing, Sofia Leitão.

Clinical Sociology and Its Application to Analysis of Unaccompanied Children -- A World Society Analysis of the Rights of Unaccompanied Minors -- International State Responsibility Obligations to Protect and Provide Access to Justice for the Asylum-Seeking Child: The CRC and the Unaccompanied Minor Border Case Study Using Dahrendorf's Social Conflict Theory to Proffer a Revised Legal Framework: Australia, Bangladesh/Myanmar to the ASEAN Charter States, the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Africa, and USA/Mexico -- Refugees and Migrant Children in Europe -- Unaccompanied Foreign Minors and Asylum Seekers Under Italian Law: The Issue of Minors Attaining Majority -- Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in Denmark: Best Interest, Crime Prevention or Immigration Policy? - The Right to Education of Unaccompanied Minors and the Persistence of an Education Gap in their Transition to Adulthood -- Voluntary Guardianship for Unaccompanied Children in Italy: Strengths and Weaknesses of a New Model -- Detention of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Portugal: A Call for a Clinical Sociology Intervention -- Unaccompanied Children at the US: Mexico Border -- Hope for Refugees: Challenges in Reception and Integration of Unaccompanied Venezuelan Children in Brazil -- Ageing Out of Care Towards Living a Self-determined Life: A Multidisciplinary Mentoring Model for Unaccompanied Care Leavers -- Conclusion.

This volume explores the various challenges faced by migrant unaccompanied children, using a clinical sociological approach and a global perspective. It applies a human rights and comparative framework to examine the reception of unaccompanied children in European, North American, South American, Asian and African countries. Some of the important issues the volume discusses are: access of displaced unaccompanied children to justice across borders and juridical contexts; voluntary guardianship for unaccompanied children; the diverse but complementary needs of unaccompanied children in care, which if left unaddressed can have serious implications on their social integration in the host societies; and the detention of migrant children as analyzed against the most recent European and international human rights law standards. This is a one-of-a-kind volume bringing together perspectives from child rights policy chairs across the world on a global issue. The contributions reflect the authors' diverse cultural contexts and academic and professional backgrounds, and hence, this volume synthesizes theory with practice through rich firsthand experiences, along with theoretical discussions. It is addressed not only to academics and professionals working on and with migrant children, but also to a wider, discerning public interested in a better understanding of the rights of unaccompanied children.