Los derechos de los menores no acompañados inmigrantes y solicitantes de asilo en la Unión Europea de las fronteras fortificadas y sus Estados miembros
The phenomenon of minors, children and adolescents who migrate to another State territory alone, without adults who can take care of them, often undocumented, and regardless of the immigration laws of these countries, has been gaining strength and visibility in recent decades both in Europe and USA....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Trace |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/trace/1723 |
| Summary: | The phenomenon of minors, children and adolescents who migrate to another State territory alone, without adults who can take care of them, often undocumented, and regardless of the immigration laws of these countries, has been gaining strength and visibility in recent decades both in Europe and USA. This paper tries to shed some light on the problems affecting this unaccompanied alien children group, based on the difficulties in adopting appropriate solutions for them, given their illegal status, and no statistics existence to enable reliable quantification of this phenomenon. This work aim is to identify the common features of this heterogeneous group, and analyze their regulatory worldwide treatment, especially by the community law which has yet to adopt a specific and compulsory rule for all member states to tackle a global, coherent and satisfying policy for children’s rights in the entire European Union on this issue. As it is shown in the case of Spain, often those rules do not satisfy or meet the basic universal principles of child protection, and are based only on control logic of immigration flows. |
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| ISSN: | 0185-6286 2007-2392 |