Forced Migration Review (Sep 2013)

The impact of immigration detention on children

  • Alice Farmer

Journal volume & issue
no. 44
pp. 14 – 16

Abstract

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States often detain children without adequate attention to international law and in conditions that can be inhumane and damaging. Asylum-seeking and refugee children must be treated first and foremost as children, with their rights and protection needs given priority in all migration policies.

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