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Accepted Paper:
In search of protection: separated children seeking asylum
Mekdes Alemayehu
(Trinity Centre)
Yesim Deveci
(Trinity Centre)
Paper short abstract:
Separated children applying for asylum in the UK are engaged in a complex, legal and heavily bureaucratic system. This paper explores their experience of this process.
Paper long abstract:
Separated children applying for asylum in the UK are engaged in a complex, legal and heavily bureaucratic system. This paper explores their experience of this process. Situated within the relevant legal frameworks that offer young separated refugees protection as children, as asylum seekers and as children separated from their families and drawing upon research undertaken with a small sample group, this paper seeks to provide an insight into the lived realities of separated children claiming asylum. The authors examine the young people's experiences of the asylum process including their contact with the Home Office, legal representation, the asylum determination process and issues relating to migration control. These issues are then considered through the lens of the themes which emerge; culture of disbelief, security and criminalisation, waiting and lack of understanding.
The experience of refugees on arrival...
Session 1