In the "best interest" of immigrant and refugee children: Deliberating on their unique circumstances

Child Welfare

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 747-770

  Xu, Qingwen ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNICATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY; HUMANS; PARENTING; REFUGEES; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27844473332     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. AB 1895 Assembly Bill (2004). Accessed October 20, 2004, from http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ ab_1895_cfa_20040420_151844_asm_comm.html.
2. Adler, L. S. (2001). The meanings of permanence: A critical analysis of the adoption and safe families of 1997. Harvard Journal on Legislation, 38, 1.
3. Alston, P. (1994). The best interests principle: Towards a reconciliation of culture and human rights. International Journal of Law and Family, 8, 1.
4. Arrendo, P., Orjuela, E., & Moore, M. (1989). Family therapy with Central American war refugee families. Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies, 8, 28-35.
5. Axinn, J., & Stern, M. J. (2000). Social welfare: A history of the American response to need (5th ed.). New York: Longman.
6. Bartlett, K. T. (1988). Re-expressing parenthood. Yale Law Journal, 98, 293.
7. Brandes, J. R. (1999). Judging the 'best interests of the child'. Accessed November 1, 2004, from http://www.brandeslaw.com/child_custody/ judging_best_interests.htm#bottom
8. Chen, G. Z. T. (2000). Elian or alien? The contradictions of protecting undocumented children under the special immigrant juvenile statute. Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 21, 597.
9. Das, A. K., & Kemp, S. F. (1997). Between two worlds: Counseling south Asian Americans. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 95, 23-33.
10. Downs, S. W., Moore, E., McFadden, E. J., Michaud, S. M., & Costin, L. B. (2004). Child welfare and family services: Policies and practice. Allyn and Bacon.
11. Fields, J. (2003). Children's living arrangements and characteristics: March 2002. Accessed October 26, 2004, from http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/ p20-547.pdf.
12. Hall, A. S., Pulver, C. A., & Cooley, M. J. (1996). Psychology of best interests standard: Fifty state statutes and their theoretical antecedents. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 24(2), 171-180.
13. Hollinger, J. H. (1998). Adoption law and practice (1998 supplement). New York: Matthew Bender.
14. Jones, A. (2001). Child asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Social Work, 1(3), 253-271.
15. Kanaiaupuni, S. M. (2000). Child well-being and the intergenerational effects of undocumented immigrant status (Report No. IRPDP121000).
16. Kay, H. H. (2000). From the second sex to the joint venture: An overview of women's rights and family law in the United States during the twentieth century. California Law Review, 88, 2017.
17. Kinzie, J. D. (1989). Therapeutic approaches to traumatized Cambodian refugees. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2, 75-91.
18. Lane, L. L. (1998). The parental rights movement. University of Colorado Law Review, 69, 825-849.
19. Levesque, R. J. R. (2000). Cultural evidence, child maltreatment, and the law. Child Maltreatment, 5(2), 146-160.
20. Linares-Fierro, J. (1999). A mother removed - a child left behind: A battered immigrant's need for a modified best interests standard. The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues, 1, 253.
21. Lynch, P. (2001). Keep them home: The best interests of indigenous children and communities in Canada and Australia. Sydney Law Review, 23, 501.
22. Manns, J. (2002). Reorganization as a substitute for reform: The abolition of the ins. Yale Law Journal, 112, 145.
23. McCarthy, J. (1998). The cps drug use dilemma. Assessed October 22, 2002, from http://www.lindesmith.org/library/mccarthy2.cfm.
24. Mercer, K. L. (1998). A content analysis of judicial decision-making: How judges use the primary caretaker standard to make a custody determination. William & Mary Journal of Women and Law, 5, 1.
25. Miller, G. (1993). The psychological best interests of the child. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 19(1/2), 21.
26. Moye, J., & Rinker, R. (2002). It's a hard knock life: Does the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 adequately address problems in the child welfare system? Harvard Journal on Legislation, 39, 375.
27. National Association of Social Workers. (1996). The code of ethics. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
28. Navarro, L. R. (1998). An analysis of treatment of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in INS detention and other forms of institutionalized custody. ChicanoLatino Law Review, 19, 589.
29. Nugent, C. (2004). Unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children: Reforms for the most vulnerable detainees. Accessed October 16, 2004, from http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/articles/2004,0616-Nugent.shtm.
30. Nurcombe, B., & Partlett, D. F. (1994). Child mental health and the law. New York: The Free Press.
31. Potocky-Tripodi, M. (2002). Best practices for social work with refugees and immigrants. New York: Columbia University Press.
32. Pruett, M. K., Hogan-Bruen, K., & Jackson, T. (2000). The best interests of the child: Parents' versus attorney's perspectives. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 33(1/2), 47.
33. Russell, M., N., & White, B. (2001). Practice with immigrants and refugees: Social worker and client perspectives. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 9(3/4), 73-92.
34. Schwartz, L. J. (1991). Religious matching for adoption: Unraveling the interests behind the "best interests" standard. Family Law Quarterly, 25, 171.
35. Seugling, C. J. (2004). Toward a comprehensive response to the transnational migration of unaccompanied minors in the United States. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 37, 861.
36. Siberman, L. (2000). The Hague child conventions: The internationalization of child law. In S. Katz, J. Eekelaar, & M. MacLean (Eds.), Cross currents: Family law and policy in the United States and England (pp. 589). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
37. Spiro, P. (1997). The states and international human rights. Fordham Law Review, 66, 567.
38. Starr, S., & Brilmayer, L. (2003). Family separation as a violation of international law. Berkeley Journal of International Law, 21, 213-287.
39. Thompson, G. (2003, Nov. 3). Littlest immigrants, left in hands of smugglers. New York Times, p. A1.