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Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Hotel Accommodation, Removal from Child Welfare system, and Risk of Trafficking

Ioffe, Yulia; (2023) Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Hotel Accommodation, Removal from Child Welfare system, and Risk of Trafficking. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/ Green open access

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Abstract

Starting from July 2021, the UK Home Office has housed unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK via small boats in hotels. Hundreds of these children have gone missing from the hotels and are suspected of being trafficked and exploited. In this blog post, I examine the evolution of the policy to accommodate unaccompanied asylum seeking children in hotels and the ensuing legal challenges of this policy domestically. I argue that the policy violates the UK’s international legal obligations, particularly under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This policy not only discriminates against unaccompanied asylum seeking children compared to to children without parental care who are UK citizens by placing the former outside the welfare system, despite their entitlement to equal “special protection and assistance” under Article 20 of the CRC, but also denies them protections against abuse and exploitation under Articles 19, 32, 34, and 36 of the CRC.

Type: Digital scholarly resource
Title: Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Hotel Accommodation, Removal from Child Welfare system, and Risk of Trafficking
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children, child welfare system, accommodation, children without family environment, trafficking, exploitation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180972
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