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    ‘For a while out of orbit’: listening to what unaccompanied asylum-seeking/refugee children in the UK say about their rights and experiences in private foster care

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    Authors
    Connolly, Helen
    Affiliation
    University of Bedfordshire
    Issue Date
    2014-11-11
    Subjects
    unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
    refugee children
    children’s rights
    United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
    private foster care
    asylum seeking children
    asylum seekers
    unaccompanied asylum seeking children
    L400 Social Policy
    
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    Abstract
    There is little in the existing refugee or child welfare literature on the circumstances and needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children living in private foster care in the UK. This article reports on what these young people themselves have to say about their experiences of such placements. Their stories have been extrapolated from the findings of a narrative-based research project with 29 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that explored the ways in which they perceived and experienced the rights of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989). The findings suggest the existence of a negative relationship between these rights and systems of monitoring and protection in the UK, and the vulnerability of unaccompanied children in private foster care to neglect, material hardship, abuse and exploitation.
    Citation
    Connolly H (2014) '‘For a while out of orbit’: listening to what unaccompanied asylum-seeking/refugee children in the UK say about their rights and experiences in private foster care', Adoption and Fostering, 38 (4), pp.331-345.
    Publisher
    SAGE
    Journal
    Adoption and Fostering
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/621874
    DOI
    10.1177/0308575914553360
    Additional Links
    http://aaf.sagepub.com/content/38/4/331.abstract
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0308-5759
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1177/0308575914553360
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