1st Edition
Undocumented and Unaccompanied Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States
1. Introduction
Cecilia Menjívar and Krista M. Perreira
2. Unaccompanied minors from the Northern Central American countries in the migrant stream: social differentials and institutional contexts
Nestor Rodriguez, Ximena Urrutia-Rojas and Luis Raul Gonzalez
3. Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico
Amy Thompson, Rebecca Maria Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue and Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández
4. Deportation as a sacrament of the state: the religious instruction of contracted chaplains in U.S. detention facilities
Gregory Lee Cuéllar
5. Integration of unaccompanied migrant youth in the United States: a call for research
Jodi Berger Cardoso, Kalina Brabeck, Dennis Stinchcomb, Lauren Heidbrink, Olga Acosta Price, Óscar F. Gil-García, Thomas M. Crea and Luis H. Zayas
6. Best interests, durable solutions and belonging: policy discourses shaping the futures of unaccompanied migrant and refugee minors coming of age in Europe
Jennifer Allsopp and Elaine Chase
7. Outsourcing the ‘best interests’ of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity
Rachel Humphris and Nando Sigona
8. Better off without parents? Legal and ethical questions concerning refugee children in Germany
Lars Hillmann and Annette Dufner
Biography
Cecilia Menjívar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Her research focuses on the effects of immigration law on immigrants’ lives, including family dynamics and separations, gender, social networks, religious participation, and belonging. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2014) and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017).
Krista M. Perreira (BA, Pomona College 1991; Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1999) is professor of social medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and a fellow at the Carolina Population Center. Dr Perreira has over 20 years of research experience focused on understanding and improving the well-being of immigrant and Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States.
