ASYLUM SEEKING CHILDREN

Asylum Seeking Children

Abstract

Children seeking asylum are entitled to the same protection under international instruments (the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees and the ECHR) as adults. Further, Article 22 of UNCRC provides that refugee children should be entitled to additional protection. However, when ratifying the UNCRC the UK government entered a general reservation in relation to immigration and nationality. The UN Committee has expressed serious concerns regarding the rights of asylum seeking children in relation to matters such as dispersal and access to health and education. These concerns have been echoed by other agencies.

With the incorporation of the European Human Rights Convention and the Refugee Convention into household regulation, the UK has become party to worldwide human privileges regulations and responsibilities, and, as this report reiterates, party to conferences on the best interest and well-being of a progeny migrant. Despite some endeavours at teaching, supplying guidance and encouraging perception about the processing of submissions from young children, only 2 percent of unaccompanied or divided young children were allocated asylum when they directed in 2004. 'The value of conclusion making is poor. Decisions don't contemplate the detail that the assertion is by a child. There is no distinction between mature individual and progeny denial letters.'

The report displays that there is a large discrepancy between government principle and government perform in considering with asylum submission situations for minors. The UK's lawful structure furthermore appears needing when it arrives to the defence of these young children because of insufficient lawful representation, insufficient figures of immigration referees and the incompetence of the Home Office to formulate a apt and effective structure for making primary conclusions in such cases. Furthermore, the work best features the need of interest in the defence and welfare of unaccompanied or divided young children who are searching asylum in the UK. There is effectively no government study into the general determinants of migration of minors, regardless of normal statistical publications by the Home Office into unaccompanied young children searching asylum.

Table of Content

CHAPTER ONE5

INTRODUCTION5

CHAPTER TWO7

METHODOLOGY7

Research Method7

Literature Selection Criteria7

Search Technique8

CHAPTER THREE9

DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS9

Asylum Cases: Matter of Life and Death9

Evidence of Commitments in the Code10

Children are Subjected to a Hostile Legal Process marked by "a Culture of Disbelief"11

CHAPTER FOUR17

CONCLUSION17

Unaccompanied and Separated Children--Evolving Terms17

The Rights of Separated Children under International Law17

REFERENCES21

Chapter One

Introduction

The heart and core of this report displays that there is a large discrepancy between government principle and government perform in considering with asylum submission situations for minors. The UK's lawful structure furthermore appears needing when it arrives to the defence of these young children because of insufficient lawful representation, insufficient figures of immigration referees and the incompetence of the Home Office to formulate a apt and effective structure for making primary conclusions in such cases. Furthermore, the work best features the need of interest in the defence and welfare of unaccompanied or divided young children who are searching asylum in the UK. There is effectively no government study into the general determinants of migration of minors, regardless of ...