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 published in 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 published in 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 published in July 2018) 

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

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

• ADCS published a research report on Safeguarding pressures (recent version published in 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 published in December 2019) 

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