Policy and Legal Implications for Working with Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Foster Care in the United States

Kerri Evans ()
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Kerri Evans: School of Social Work, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

Laws, 2023, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: Unaccompanied immigrant children arrive in the US having fled deteriorating conditions and human rights violations in their home countries. Despite the large numbers of unaccompanied children, there is a lack of research on outcomes for unaccompanied children in the US and particularly for those in the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) Long Term Foster Care (LTFC) program. This manuscript begins with a review of the existing laws that influence unaccompanied children (UC) served through the ORR’s LTFC program and a review of the current research on UC in foster care in the US. Notably, this manuscript also visualizes the numbers of UC that have arrived in the US since the early 2000s. These are used to provide a synthesis of recommendations for policy and practice with unaccompanied children.

Keywords: unaccompanied child; immigrant; undocumented; human rights; foster care; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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