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Captured Childhood. Introducing a new model to ensure the rights and liberty of refugee, asylum seeker and irregular migrant children affected by immigration detention

Document number
2912
Date
2012
Title
Captured Childhood. Introducing a new model to ensure the rights and liberty of refugee, asylum seeker and irregular migrant children affected by immigration detention
Author/publisher
The International Detention Coalition (IDC)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Violence, Human rights violation, Crime against humanity, War crime, Armed conflict, Post-conflict situation, Terrorism
Summary
This policy paper has its genesis in the growing concern on the part of IDC members about the immigration detention of children. The IDC is an international non-governmental organization with 258 members in 50 countries. Members provide legal, social, medical and other services, carry out research and reporting, and undertake advocacy and policy work on behalf of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. In 2008, the IDC conducted a survey of its members, which indicated that the detention of children was a key area in which to work. Consequently the organization developed a research project to investigate the experiences of children in immigration detention. The research presented here forms the evidence base for an international campaign to end the detention of children for immigration purposes around the world.
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