Collaborative on Global Children's Issues

These resources are meant to help participants learn and explore the role of the Catholic Church in responding to children who are migrating alone or who are at risk of or have been separated from their families in the context of migration.

Articles and reports

• ​Children on the Move: A Guide to Common Definitions and Terms (KIND, 2023)

• Data and Children on the Move: Unpacking relevant terminology, concepts and data sources (UNICEF, 2023)

• Children and migration: rights, resilience, and protection (UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti)
  

• 30 Years of Research on Migration and Displacement at UNICEF Innocenti (UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2023)

• Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives (Hille Haker and Molly Greening, eds. Lexington Books, 2018)

• Faith-Sensitive Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) to Foster Resilience in Children on the Move: Policy Brief (Arigatou International Geneva, KAICIID International Dialogue Centre and World Vision International, 2023)

• Children on the Move (Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues)

• Policy Brief: Children on the Move (InterAction, UNICEF USA, Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children's Issues)

• In Our Shoes: Voices of Youth on the Move (Bertha, Isaias, Jimmi, Sasha, Zahra, Sweta Shah, Kelly Yzique-Zea)

• Bhabbha, Jacqueline, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "Arendt's Children: Do Today's Migrant Children Have a Right to Have Rights?". Human rights quarterly 31, no. 2 (2009): 410-51. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.0.0072.

• Funck, Brian, Marcela Gaviria, Anjali Tsui, and Sara Obeidat. Frontline. Separated: Children at the Border. Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018.

• ​Hollenbach, David. "Welcoming Refugees and Migrants: Catholic Narratives and the Challenge of Inclusion." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 690, no. 1 (2020): 153-67.
  

• Menjívar, Cecilia, Perreira, Krista Marlyn. Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003206866.

• Tomasi, Silvano Maria. "Migration as Challenge to the Catholic Church." Journal of Catholic Social Thought 14, no. 1 (2017): 29-41. https://doi.org/10.5840/jcathsoc20171414
  

• “Addressing Causes of Migration” with youth and young adults in Latin America, Catholic Relief Services, 2019.

Videos

• Providing Comprehensive Care for Children Displaced, Uprooted by Conflict or Crisis. Catholic Relief Services (CRS). January 29, 2020.
  

• I Am Migration | CRS University. Catholic Relief Services (CRS). September 9, 2016.

Websites