Unaccompanied refugee children in host country foster families

International Journal of Refugee Law

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages

  Steinbogk, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

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References (11)

1. No international instruments define the term 'unaccompanied child'. The UNHCR defines unaccompanied children as 'those who are separated from both parents and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible to do so'. UNHCR, Refugee Children: Guidelines On Protection And Care 121 (1994) [hereinafter UNHCR Children Guidelines]. This definition will be used in this article.
2. No international instruments define the term 'unaccompanied child'. The UNHCR defines unaccompanied children as 'those who are separated from both parents and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible to do so'. UNHCR, Refugee Children: Guidelines On Protection And Care 121 (1994) [hereinafter UNHCR Children Guidelines]. This definition will be used in this article.
3. Dene Cohn & Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Child Soldiers: The Role Of Children In Armed Conflict 33-5 (Oxford University Press, New York 1994).
4. Michael Marrus, The Unwanted. European Refugees in the Twentieth Century 4-6 (Oxford University Press, New York 1985).
5. Deborah Dwork, Children with a Star: Jewish Touth in Nazi Europe 32-109 (Yale University Press, New Haven 1991).
6. Ibid., 32. For a harrowing fictional account of this experience, see Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (Modern Library, New York 1965).
7. Ibid., 32. For a harrowing fictional account of this experience, see Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (Modern Library, New York 1965).
8. Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel (translated by Charles Scribner, Jr., Scribner, New York 1975).
9. Child Survival: Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children (Nancy Scheper-Hughes ed., Dordrecht, Boston, D. Reidell 1987), especially Nelson H. Graburn, 'Severe Child Abuse Among the Canadian Inuit', at 211-18.
10. Child Survival: Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children (Nancy Scheper-Hughes ed., Dordrecht, Boston, D. Reidell 1987), especially Nelson H. Graburn, 'Severe Child Abuse Among the Canadian Inuit', at 211-18.
11. Mary I. Benedict et al., 'Types and Frequency of Child Maltreatment by Family Foster Care Providers in an Urban Population', 18 Child Abuse and Neglect 577-85 (1994).