In southern Europe, one of the characteristics of migration is the growing number of minors who face the journey alone and with par-ticular vulnerability. Their stigmatisation is partly due to the messa-ges disseminated by some media and especially by social media. This study analyses the treatment of unaccompanied foreign chil-dren and adolescents...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Spanish legal framework for the protection of unaccompanied foreign minors (“MENA” for its acronym in Spanish), investigating possible changes and challenges following the humanitarian crisis as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the exodus of refugees. Despite certain temporary exemptio...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, not only crowded refugee camps and immigration detention centers, but also receptions were places in which outbreaks occurred. To date there has been no report of the application of a COVID-19 surveillance system in reception centers for unaccompanied foreign minors only, who most of all deserve the utmost attention. A...
Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The present study analyzed academic motivation and its relationship with dispositions towards critical thinking in a sample of 131 students of Spanish nationality and 131 students of foreign nationality (unaccompanied foreign minors and foreign adolescents who had previously experienced the Andalusian care system). For this, an ex-post-facto study ...
Published in psychologie clinique
Le travail avec les enfants et les adolescents issus de la migration oblige les professionnels à se confronter aux tensions qui émergent de la rencontre des différences culturelles. On peut ici, en tant que psychanalystes, les considérer comme des modulations des affiliations symboliques dans le contemporain. La situation clinique traitée par les a...
Le Centre d’accueil pour mineurs étrangers non accompagnés (MENA) d’Assesse (Belgique) héberge de jeunes exilés entre 13 et 18 ans, pour la plupart affectés par des vulnérabilités physiques et psychiques générées par l’exil et les violences de guerre. Depuis 2015, les brutalités subies sur les routes migratoires s’aggravent et orientent l’accueil v...
The dialogical method as a mixed technique of anthropological research and learning can have a very promising development inside and outside the classroom. This implies assuming that the role of the students can be equated with that of the subjects who construct the social reality where our objects-subjects of study are located, and that from this ...
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health
Spain is one of the countries with the greatest influx of immigrants and, specifically, of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFMs). The educational and social inclusion of unaccompanied foreign minors poses both a challenge and a threat to current policy. Nonetheless, studies linking educational aspects to the phenomenon of the integration of these chi...
Le présent article rend compte des résultats d’une recherche menée auprès de professionnels chargés de l’accompagnement de mineurs isolés étrangers. La démarche entreprise permet de vérifier l’hypothèse d’entraves systémiques à l’accès aux droits de ces jeunes étrangers, pourtant accueillis au sein d’établissements ayant vocation à leur protection ...
Cet article tente de décrire les difficultés que rencontrent les travailleurs sociaux dans leur pratique de l’accompagnement des demandeurs d’asile et mineurs isolés étrangers. Il s’agit d’un état des lieux tiré des expériences de l’auteur en tant qu’avocate spécialisée en droit des étrangers.La mise en œuvre d’une politique de l’État français, tou...
