Protecting the Rights of Children in Migration

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for the incredible work that so many of you are doing to respond to the migration of children and families in recent years. We appreciate and admire all of the efforts worldwide to try to protect and help ensure the rights of children in migration are fulfilled.

Twenty years into the 21^st century, we believe it is time to research, reflect on, document, critique, theorize, and envision ways to protect the rights of children in migration. Thus, we are excited to partner with Laws, a peer-reviewed, open access international journal, to publish a Special Issue focused specifically on “Protecting the Rights of Children in Migration.”

We are seeking research papers, opinion pieces, commentaries, reflections, and book reviews related to cases, strategies, proceedings, resources, and efforts to protect the rights of children in migration. Authors may be academics, researchers, policy makers, practitioners, students, and, of course, children and families who have experienced the challenges and rewards of the migratory process.

Our hope is that this collection of works will serve as a resource to children, their families and advocates, students, researchers, scholars, and policymakers. We want to create a platform that will create greater understanding of the rights of children in migration and the challenges they face in the fulfillment of their rights, with a focus on strategies and remedies to overcome these challenges in individual cases, nationally, and as a global society. This shared knowledge may help to design and implement migration channels, policies, and practices that will ensure that future generations of children will be able to get where they need to go quickly and safely without unnecessary delay or trauma in the years to come.

With the effects of the climate crisis, economic inequality, armed conflict, and racial and gender violence evident worldwide, children and families will continue to be compelled to migrate for generations to come. It is critical that we continue to focus our collective time, expertise, and energy on this critical issue. We hope you will consider sharing what you have learned thus far so we can help disseminate it worldwide, for free, in this Special Issue.

Sincerely,
Prof. Warren Binford
Prof. Dr. Michael Bochenek
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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