Risk Factors Increasing Vulnerability of Migrant Children
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Security Dialogues
Date Issued
2018
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Abstract
This article analyzes and highlights the major risk factors answerable for the exposure of
migrant and refugee children to physical, psychological, and sexual violence and exploitation in the
context of the ongoing migrant humanitarian crisis. This paper looks specifically at vulnerability
to trafficking, abuse and exploitation, and the ways that particular migration contexts associated
with irregular migration across the Western Balkan Route can affect risk and protective factors.
Precisely, we draw attention to the lengthy asylum process, long wait times, inadequate
accommodation facilities for vulnerable children, inhumane living conditions, lack of security,
ineffective humanitarian and insufficiently resourced child protection systems.
migrant and refugee children to physical, psychological, and sexual violence and exploitation in the
context of the ongoing migrant humanitarian crisis. This paper looks specifically at vulnerability
to trafficking, abuse and exploitation, and the ways that particular migration contexts associated
with irregular migration across the Western Balkan Route can affect risk and protective factors.
Precisely, we draw attention to the lengthy asylum process, long wait times, inadequate
accommodation facilities for vulnerable children, inhumane living conditions, lack of security,
ineffective humanitarian and insufficiently resourced child protection systems.
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