Children on the Move
Efforts to respond appropriately to migrant and asylum-seeking children and families require innovative thinking and collaborative action. Young people who have lived the migration experience and those who have helped them navigate risk and find protection along the way must inform and guide the response.
People
Joan Lombardi
The Thrive Center for Child, Families and Communities; Collaborative on Global Children's Issues
Senior Scholar; Senior Fellow
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Read the Innovating Protection for Children on the Move Across the Americas Summary Brief
In spring 2022, Georgetown University's Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, the Georgetown Americas Institute, and the Institute for the Study of International Migration co-convened a series to bring a child-focused and solutions-oriented lens to the dynamic landscape of immigration between countries of origin and return, the U.S.-Mexico border, and within receiving communities across the United States.
Publications
Building Bridges for Every Child
February 1, 2021
This paper, co-authored by Gillian Huebner, executive director of the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, was published by UNICEF and illustrates how reception, care, and services for unaccompanied migrant children in the United States can be built around the best interests of each child.
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Blog Posts
In Our Shoes: Voices of Youth on the Move
December 18, 2023
Bertha, Isaias, Jimmi, Sasha, and Zahra, youth activists; Sweta Shah, Co-founder, ChildArise, and Research Fellow, Georgetown University Collaborative on Children’s Issues; Kelly Yzique-Zea, Assistant Director, Vulnerable Populations and Migration, UNICEF USA.
Have you ever wondered what it feels…
Innovating Protection for Migrant and Asylum-Seeking Children in U.S. Communities
April 20, 2022
The number of young people fleeing high levels of violence, crime, natural disasters, food insecurity and poverty and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border reached a 20-year high in the U.S. government’s fiscal year 2021 (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021). This included a record number of children who…
Responses
Óyeme: In the United States
Joanne Seelig, Artistic Director of Education and Theatre for Change, Imagination Stage | April 25, 2022
In Their Own Words: In the United States
Identity, Theatre for Change | April 24, 2022
Videos
Localización para el Desarrollo Infantil Temprano y la Protección de la Niñez en Guatemala (Video)
June 13, 2024
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes
Localization for Early Childhood Development and Child Protection in Guatemala (Video)
June 13, 2024
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes
Peace Education following Atrocities | Ian Manzi | Rossing Center (Video)
January 31, 2024
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes
Georgetown Units
Institute for the Study of International Migration Georgetown Unit
Established in 1998, the Institute for the Study of International Migration is a research institute at the School of Foreign Service applying the best in social science, legal, and policy expertise to the complex and controversial issues raised by international migration.
Essays
Innovating Protection for Children on the Move across the Americas
"How did we manage to get here? We improvised. The safety we found—we created it ourselves." This is how a 16-year-old boy from Honduras summarized his journey across northern Central America and into the United States. "Now that I am here, I am still improvising.”
Hundreds of thousands of children…