Reconceptualising Unaccompanied Child Asylum Seekers and the Law

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Jennifer L. Whelan (Director, Clinical Legal Education, Western Sydney University)

Reconceptualising Unaccompanied Child Asylum Seekers and the Law

Jennifer L. Whelan (Director, Clinical Legal Education, Western Sydney University)

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English

Routledge
26 August 2024

Social & political philosophy; Sociology; Jurisprudence & general issues; Personal & public health; Health & Self-Help

Series: Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world’s most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing. The intersection of their age, their seeking asylum, and separation from their parents creates a specific and acute triple burden of vulnerability. Their precariousness has long been recognised in international human rights law. Yet, human rights-based responses have been subordinated to progressive global securitisation of irregular migration through interception, interdiction, extraterritorial processing and immigration detention. Such an approach necessitates an urgent paradigm shift in how we comprehend their needs as children, the impact of punitive border control laws on them, and the responsibility of States to these children when they arrive at their borders seeking asylum.

This book reconceptualises the relationship between unaccompanied child asylum seekers and States. It proposes a new conceptual framework by applying international human rights law, childhood studies and vulnerability theory scholarship in analysing State obligations to respond to these children. This framework incorporates a robust analysis of the operation and impact of laws on vulnerable populations, a taxonomy for articulating the gravity of any consequent harms and a method to prioritise recommendations for reform.

The book then illustrates the framework’s utility using Australia’s treatment of unaccompanied children as a case study. This book illuminates key learnings from human rights law, childhood studies and vulnerability theory and transforms them into a new roadmap for law reform. As such, it will be a valuable practice-based resource for practitioners, non-government organisations, advocates, policymakers and the general public interested in advocating for the rights of vulnerable populations as well as for academics, researchers and students of human rights law, refugee law, childhood studies and vulnerability studies.

By: Jennifer L. Whelan (Director Clinical Legal Education Western Sydney University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781032196305
ISBN 10: 1032196300
Series: Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The historical context of Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers, including unaccompanied child asylum seekers 2. Comprehending the specific vulnerability of unaccompanied child asylum seekers 3. The unfulfilled potential of human rights for unaccompanied child asylum seekers 4. The potential of expanding vulnerability theory to prioritise State responses to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children 5. Vulnerability analysis of provision of care to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, using Australia as a case study 6. Vulnerability analysis of Australia’s processing of asylum claims of unaccompanied children 7. Vulnerability analysis of Australia’s provision of guardianship to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children 8. Scope to expand the application of the mitigating vulnerability framework to other contexts. Bibliography

Jennifer L. Whelan is a practising human rights lawyer and academic.