PROTECTION OF UNACCOMPANIED AND SEPARATED MIGRANT CHILDREN UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

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The number of children migrating alone or becoming unaccompanied or separated during and after their perilous journey has dramatically increased in recent years. Several reasons such as the desire to access to better living conditions including education and employment and economic prosperity or to have protection from violence, exploitation, or abuse keep forcing children to leave often without their parents the country where they live and seek new living spaces. As aliens and children, who lack parental protection, unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) face many challenges and dangers and are frequently subject to various human rights violations. Due to their vulnerability, international law has recognised their need for special care and to this end adopted several protection measures. In this regard, this thesis seeks to analyse whether international law and national practices provide adequate protection for UASC from violence, abuse, exploitation, and exclusion from fundamental rights. In this respect, it analyses several international legislative instruments related to and applicable to UASC, primarily the 1951 Refugee Convention the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which is the most widely ratified Convention in the world. It also addresses regional and soft law instruments on the issue. Accordingly, it argues that the developments in international law have contributed to enhanced protection of UASC. On the other hand, numerous severe challenges and shortcomings in international legislation and states' practices continue to threaten and undermine protecting and promoting UASC's rights.

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Keywords: Unaccompanied and separated children, international law, child protection, the UN Convention on the Rights of Child, best interests principle. ,

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H. Kara, “PROTECTION OF UNACCOMPANIED AND SEPARATED MIGRANT CHILDREN UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.