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Director of the Institute for Migration Studies, and Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Migration Studies, Lebanese American University
Our latest Euromed Migration and International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) study on unaccompanied and separated children in Lebanon, Jordan and Morocco investigates: (a) the specific migration aspirations and broader migration decision-making processes of unaccompanied and separated children, and (b) the factors impacting their protection and integration in their host societies. While many research initiatives embracing a child participatory approach have already been undertaken in Europe focusing on the situation and perspectives of migrant children in general, and unaccompanied and separated children in particular, much less insights are available on the situation in the MENA region, where a sizeable proportion of the global asylum seeking and refugee population resides. This work was designed to shed light on past and current dynamics that influence international migration (from and within the region), gather the perspectives and analyze the narratives of UASC in an attempt to understand the reasons that underpin the mobility of unaccompanied and separated children from and within the region, also with a view to provide recommendations on how to better provide for their specific needs in different contexts. Read the report in English, here: https://lnkd.in/djQa6bgp In Arabic, here: https://lnkd.in/dJRwqiAc And in French, here: https://lnkd.in/diGJtCzq #Migration #Refugees --- Daria Huss; Pierre Cazenave; Sandra Sacchetti, PhD; Professor Fawwaz Ayoub Momani; A. Badre, Ph.D.
