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Parallels and meridians: a transatlantic comparative study of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum
Description
Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers. Three words describing the same group of people. Individuals seeking a better, safer life.
Western media is focused right now, in 2016, on the humanitarian crisis from the Middle East to the European Union; just like two years ago it was centered on the huge numbers of unaccompanied minors immigrating into the United States from Central America. Media changes its focus but problems do not end with a change of headlines.
Unaccompanied minors are the most vulnerable population looking for asylum. This study looks at two different immigration flows of unaccompanied minors: one from the Middle East going to the European Union; and the other one from Central America to the United States.
This research finds similarities and differences between these two flows of migrant children related to the reasons why they leave their countries of origin, their experiences during the trip to the destination countries, the asylum process, the legal status of these children and how these minors are perceived by societies in the destination countries. Using a human rights law framework, this thesis will explore the continuum of violations of human rights that these children endure on their journey from their origin countries to their destination states.
Through interviews with former and current direct providers of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, previous scholarly work, documentaries and news articles on the subject, it will make clear that these two flows of children fleeing to different destinations have much more in common than what may be initially perceived.
This emergent, exploratory and inductive qualitative research will bring light to asylum law and question why the social responsibility to protect children seems to skip the most vulnerable ones: unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.
Western media is focused right now, in 2016, on the humanitarian crisis from the Middle East to the European Union; just like two years ago it was centered on the huge numbers of unaccompanied minors immigrating into the United States from Central America. Media changes its focus but problems do not end with a change of headlines.
Unaccompanied minors are the most vulnerable population looking for asylum. This study looks at two different immigration flows of unaccompanied minors: one from the Middle East going to the European Union; and the other one from Central America to the United States.
This research finds similarities and differences between these two flows of migrant children related to the reasons why they leave their countries of origin, their experiences during the trip to the destination countries, the asylum process, the legal status of these children and how these minors are perceived by societies in the destination countries. Using a human rights law framework, this thesis will explore the continuum of violations of human rights that these children endure on their journey from their origin countries to their destination states.
Through interviews with former and current direct providers of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, previous scholarly work, documentaries and news articles on the subject, it will make clear that these two flows of children fleeing to different destinations have much more in common than what may be initially perceived.
This emergent, exploratory and inductive qualitative research will bring light to asylum law and question why the social responsibility to protect children seems to skip the most vulnerable ones: unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.
Date Created
2016
Contributors
- Tomasini, Maria Lujan (Author)
- Luna, Ilana (Thesis advisor)
- Vargas, Carlos (Committee member)
- Cuadraz, Gloria (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- International Law
- public policy
- Regional Studies
- Asylum
- Central America
- Middle East
- unaccompanied minors
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--Social aspects--Middle East.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children
- Unaccompanied refugee children--Legal status, laws, etc.--European Union countries.
- Unaccompanied refugee children
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--Social aspects--Central America.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children
- Unaccompanied refugee children--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
- Unaccompanied refugee children
Extent
vi, 177 pages : illustrations (some color)
Language
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In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38704
Statement of Responsibility
by Maria Lujan Tomasini
Description Source
Viewed on April 15, 2020
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2016
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-129)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: International Law
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- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 2 years 8 months ago
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