Research and Publications

This section provides a range of research and publications from Migration Yorkshire or other agencies and organisations.  

• Children’s Commissioner reported the conditions faced by young refugees in a briefing on ‘Detention of unaccompanied children arriving in Kent during 2020’(recent version released February 2021) 

• Civil Society LOIPR Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child sets out priority issues and difficulties regularising status for undocumented children. (recent version released December 2020) 

• Refugee Support Network for UNICEF UK provides a report about refugee children’s access to education, including analysis of delays in accessing education in the UK. (recent version released July 2018) 

• Project play published advocacy reports on ‘Evictions -practices that violate children’s rights on the Franco-British border’ (recent version released September 2020) 

•  The University of Wolverhampton provides a new study on ‘London’s children and young people who are not British citizens: a profile.’ This report discusses children in London who are growing up without any formal immigration status (recent version released January 2020) 

• Free Movement provides a briefing on ‘Nationality and children in care’ (recent version released October 2020) 

• ADCS published a research report on Safeguarding pressures (recent version released February 2021) 

• Migration Yorkshire released the research report ‘Someone to smile at you, that’s all you need’ which discusses how to better understand young refugees’ experience in a new country. (recent version released December 2019) 

• Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit released a report on COVID 19 asylum delays on children in North West of England. (recent version released March 2021)