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The Rights of Unaccompanied Immigrant ChildrenResearch Resources & Strategies

Lyonette Louis-JacquesD’Angelo Law LibraryUniversity of Chicago Law SchoolOctober 16, 2012

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), updated to 2010

Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA, 2008)(via state.gov)

MOUs (e.g. state child protection agencies w/ Mexican consulate on children of Mexican nationals)

Standards for the Custody, Placement and Care; Legal Representation; and Adjudication of Unaccompanied Alien Children in the United States (ABA Commission on Immigration 2004 guidelines)

State child welfare legislation (NCSL) Immigration law: Study Aids, Treatises Immigration law research guide: Georgetown; CALI lesson

Unaccompanied Children: U.S. Immigration Law

http://www.uscis.gov/

http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/

http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/Immigration/PublicDocuments/Immigrant_Standards.authcheckdam.pdf




http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/human-services/state-child-welfare-legislation-2010-and-2011.aspx

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/courses/immigration.html

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/treatises.html

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/research/guides/ImmigrationLaw.cfm

http://www.cali.org/lesson/1064

U.S. DOJ, Executive Office for Immigration Review (2008 guidelines) U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)

Division of Unaccompanied Children’s Services ((DUCS)

Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM)

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (Resources) Immigrant Children’s Protection Project, National Immigrant Justice Center

(Heartland Alliance) Detention and Asylum Program, Women’s Refugee Commission

Forced from Home (October 2012, children fleeing violence in Central America)

Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Unaccompanied Minors and Their Journey through the US Immigration System (2012,

video)

National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children (USCRI) Unaccompanied Children Program, Vera Institute of Justice Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)

Unaccompanied Chidren: U.S. Agencies and Organizations

http://www.justice.gov/eoir/press/08/UnaccompaniedAlienChildrenApr08.htm

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/unaccompanied-childrens-services

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/programs/urm

http://www.theyoungcenter.org/index.shtml

http://www.theyoungcenter.org/resources.shtml

http://www.immigrantjustice.org/programs/immigrant-childrens-protection-project

http://womensrefugeecommission.org/programs/detention/55-detention/81-unaccompanied-alien-children-and-family-detention

http://womensrefugeecommission.org/resources/doc_download/844-forced-from-home-the-lost-boys-and-girls-of-central-america

http://vimeo.com/46773103

http://www.refugees.org/our-work/child-migrants/

http://www.vera.org/project/unaccompanied-children-program

https://www.supportkind.org/

CIA World Factbook (and current news sources) IRB Canada’s Country Factsheets/National Documentation Packages DOS: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices;

Trafficking in Persons Report; religious freedom; child labor Country reports (multiple links via the Int’l Human Rights ERG) Africa

Anglophone, francophone; Africa, northern, western Eritrea, Mali, Rwanda

Americas Central America, Latin America, North America, South America Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador Mexico

Asia China (East Asia) India (South Asia)

Europe

Conducting country of origin research

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/eng/resrec/Pages/origin.aspx

http://www.humanrights.gov/reports/

http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/index.htm

http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/

http://www.asil.org/erg/?page=ihr

Representing Children Worldwide (Yale, 2005) Sources of law: Civil, family, children, minors codes;

official gazettes of law (Government Gazettes Online) Country child welfare, justice agencies (minors, children) Children’s Rights (Library of Congress; Int’l, China,

Mexico) Children’s Rights (Human Rights Watch) NGO/IGO publications

E.g. Harmonisation of Children’s Laws in Eritrea (2006, PDF), Mali, Rwanda (ACERWC/The African Child Policy Forum)

Child-Friendly Laws in Africa (ACPF)

How to find foreign child protection laws, Pt. 1

http://www.law.yale.edu/rcw/

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graceyor/doctemp/gazettes/index.htm

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/child-rights/index.php

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/child-rights/index.php

http://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights

http://www.acerwc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/English-ACERWC-Eritrea-Harmonisation-of-Laws-on-Children.pdf

http://www.acerwc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/English-ACERWC-Eritrea-Harmonisation-of-Laws-on-Children.pdf

http://acerwc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/English-ACERWC-Mali-Harmonisation-of-Laws-on-Children.pdf

http://acerwc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/English-ACERWC-Rwanda-Harmonisation-of-Laws-on-Children.pdf

http://acerwc.org/

http://www.africanchildforum.org/site/

https://www.box.com/shared/t2k1hv9fn8

General research guides Foreign Law Guide (Tom Reynolds & Arturo Flores, $)

Subjects: Family, Criminal (for juvenile justice, sexual abuse) No entry for Eritrea

Globalex (includes Eritrea) Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress; includes Eritrea) Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law (Mary Rumsey:

Globalex; see also her CALI lesson)


http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://foreignlawguide.com/ip

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Eritrea.htm

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.php

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/eritrea.php

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Foreign_Law_Research1.htm

http://www.cali.org/lesson/764

Databases Subscription ($)

Manupatra (India) vLex (China, India, Mexico) Mexico Civil Code Annotated (MEXCIVCODE via Westlaw) ChinaLawInfo/LawInfoChina, Westlaw China LexisNexis (China, India, Mexico)

Free AfricanLII WorldLII GLIN (Global Legal Information Network)(currently not available) RefWorld (UNHCR) Migration Law Database (IOM)


http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://www.manupatra.com/asp/ipbased.aspx

http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://vlex.com/account/login_ip

http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://en.pkulaw.cn/

http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://www.westlawchina.com

http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://www.westlawchina.com

http://www.africanlii.org/catalog

http://www.worldlii.org/

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain

http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/international-migration-law/lang/en

Library catalog, Lens, WorldCat Alternate terms: “separated children”, “minor migrants”,

minors, adolescents, youth, juveniles LC Subject Headings

Immigrant children – Legal status, laws, etc. – [region, country] Unaccompanied refugee children – Legal status, laws, etc. Refugee children – Legal status, laws, etc. – [region, country] Asylum, Right of – [region, country] Children’s rights – [region, country] Child welfare – [region, country]

How to find books & other works

Forced from Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America (Women’s Refugee Commission, 2012) Unaccompanied Children Backgrounder (children in immigration detention in the U.S.)

The Flow of Unaccompanied Children through the Immigration System: a Resource for Practitioners, Policy Makers, and Researchers (Vera Institute of Justice, 2012)

Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: A Growing Phenomenon with Few Easy Solutions (Migration Information Source, 2011)

Halfway Home: Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Custody (WRC, 2009) Unaccompanied Children in the United States: A Literature Review (Vera Institute

of Justice, 2008) Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied Separated Children and Refugee Protecti

on in the U.S. (Jacqueline Bhabha & Susan Schmidt, 2006)

Protecting Unaccompanied Immigrant and Refugee Children in the United States (Human Rights, 2005)

Law of Asylum in the United States (Deborah E. Anker, 2011 ed. Westlaw)

Selected Books & Reports

http://womensrefugeecommission.org/forced-from-home-press-kit

http://womensrefugeecommission.org/component/docman/doc_download/817-child-migrants-who-brave-border-crossings-alone-unaccompanied-alien-children-uacs-and-repatriat

http://www.vera.org/pubs/flow-unaccompanied-children-through-immigration-system-resource-practitioners-policy-makers-and



http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=823

http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=823

http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/docs/halfway_home.pdf

http://www.vera.org/download?file=1775/UAC+literature+review+FINAL.pdf




http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/images/pdf_files/Seeking_Asylum_Alone_US_Report.pdf

http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/images/pdf_files/Seeking_Asylum_Alone_US_Report.pdf

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol32_2005/winter2005/hr_winter05_immigrant.html

Journal and News Articles Finding Journal Articles (including international news) Finding Law Journal Articles Peace Palace Library Catalogue Finding Non-Law Journal Articles (including news)

Articles Plus Sociological Abstracts Social Work Abstracts Child Development and Adolescent Studies

African Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Southern Asian Studies LibGuides

UN News, Reliefweb, Factiva, Facts on File, Keesing’s Record of World Events

Children’s rights journals

How to find journal articles

http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/lawarticles

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/db/ej/

http://www.peacepalacelibrary.nl/

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/db/indexes/

http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/africa

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/easia/

http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/latin_america

http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/southernasia

http://www.kidscounsel.org/legalresources_journals.htm

ASIL Electronic Resource Guide: International Human Rights (also the Introduction)

U.S. treaties with country of origin (HeinOnline (TIF, UST), LexisNexis, Westlaw, United Nations)

International Legal Research in a Nutshell (Reserve) Convention on the Rights of the Child

Articles 9, 10, 11, 19, 22 (refugee children, unaccompanied), 33 (sexual exploitation and sexual abuse), 35 (trafficking), 38 (armed conflict)

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

General Comments (see No.6), Concluding Observations

OHCHR: Human Rights Issues: Children Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

UN Treaty Bodies Database Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

International regime, Pt. 1



http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/HOL/Welcome

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6861648

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-page.html

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm



http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Children/Pages/ChildrenIndex.aspx



Official Document System (ODS, UN) African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

(African Union) Hague Convention for the Protection of Children Organization of American States (OAS): Children

Inter-American Children's Institute IACR—Rapporteurship on the Rights of the Child Inter-American Convention on the International Return of Childre

n Anti-Trafficking in Persons Section


http://www.un.org/en/documents/

http://acerwc.org/the-african-charter-on-the-rights-and-welfare-of-the-child-acrwc/





http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=conventions.text&cid=69

http://www.oas.org/en/topics/children.asp

http://www.iin.oea.org/IIN2011/english/index.shtml



http://www.cidh.oas.org/Ninez/default_eng.htm



http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/b-53.html

http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/b-53.html

http://www.oas.org/atip/default1.asp

Inter-Agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children (PDF)

International Organization for Migration IML Information Note on the Protection of Unaccompanied Migrant Children (2011)

Unicef (Child Protection; Innocenti Children’s Rights) Combating Child Trafficking: Handbook for Parliamentarians (2005) Child Protection: A Handbook for Parliamentarians (2004)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency) Detention Guidelines (2012; 9.2, Children) Regional Conference on Migration (RCM), Regional Guidelines for the Assistance

to Unaccompanied Children in Cases of Repatriation (2009) Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child (2008) Guidelines on Policies and Procedures in Dealing with Unaccompanied Children S

eeking Asylum (1997)


http://www.unicef.org/protection/IAG_UASCs.pdf

http://www.unicef.org/protection/IAG_UASCs.pdf

http://www.iom.int/jahia/webdav/shared/shared/mainsite/law/InfoNote-Unaccompanied-Migrant-Children-Jan2011.pdf

http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58005.html

http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58005.html

http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_33882.html

http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a54bc000.html

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocPDFViewer.html?docid=505b10ee9&query=detention%20guidelines

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocPDFViewer.html?docid=4bfd29859&query=unaccompanied%20guidelines



http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocPDFViewer.html?docid=4566b16b2&query=unaccompanied%20guidelines

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocPDFViewer.html?docid=3d4f91cf4&query=unaccompanied%20guidelines



Legislative History of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (OHCHR, 2007)English: Part I and Part II

Sharon Detrick, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1999)

CRC legislative history

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/LegislativeHistorycrc1en.pdf



http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3911686

Human Rights Watch: Children’s Rights NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) Refugee Caselaw Site (University of Michigan) Child Rights International Network (CRIN)

CRC in Court: Case-Law Database Refugees and Unaccompanied Children

CRC Article 22 Laws on refugees and unaccompanied children General Comment no.6: Treatment of unaccompanied and separated children

outside of their country of origin Refugee and Displaced Children: Rough Guide to International Law and Standards

Non-governmental organizations

http://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights

http://www.childrightsnet.org/NGOGroup/

http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/

http://refugeecaselaw.org/QSearchResult.aspx?search=UNACCOMPANIED



http://www.crin.org/index.asp

http://www.crin.org/Law/CRC_in_Court/index.asp

http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/uncrc.asp

http://www.crin.org/Law/find.asp?keyList=26

http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=5745&flag=news

http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=13767

http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=13767

Trafficking in Persons Report (U.S. Dept. of State) The Protection Project Child Migration Research Network (UK) Human Trafficking (United Nations Office on Drugs and

Crime (UNODC)) Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2009) Human Trafficking Case Law Database Human Trafficking Indicators (for children)

Child trafficking

http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/

http://www.protectionproject.org/

http://www.childmigration.net/index

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/index.html

http://www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf

http://www.unodc.org/cld/en/about/index.html

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/HT_indicators_E_LOWRES.pdf

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