Resources

Becoming Adult Research and Policy Brief Series 

Allsopp, J. (2017) ‘Unaccompanied Minors and Secondary Migration between Italy and the UK’, Becoming Adult Research Brief no. 8, London: UCL http://www.becomingadult.net

Chase, E. and Sigona, N. (2017) ‘Forced returns and protracted displacement’, Becoming Adult Research Brief no. 7, London: UCL http://www.becomingadult.net

Sigona, N., Chase, E., Humphris, R. (2017) ‘Understanding causes and consequences of going ‘missing’, Becoming Adult Brief no. 6, London: UCL http://www.becomingadult.net

Chase, E. (2017) ‘Health and wellbeing’, Becoming Adult Research Brief no. 5, London: UCL http://www.becomingadult.net

Meloni, F. and Chase, E. (2017) ‘Transitions into institutional adulthood’, Becoming Adult Research Brief no. 4, London: UCL http://www.becomingadult.net

Sigona, N., Chase, E., Humphris, R. (2017) ‘Protecting the ‘best interests’ of the child in transition to adulthood’, Becoming Adult Research Brief no. 3, London: UCL http://www.becomingadult.net

Sigona, N. and Humphris, R. (2016) Child mobility in the EU’s refugee crisis: What are the data gaps and why do they matter?, Research Brief, no. 2

Humphris, R. and Sigona, N. (2016) ‘Mapping unaccompanied asylum seeking children in England’, Research Brief, no. 1

“Walking A Tightrope: Hidden issues, challenges & complexities surrounding the protection needs of Albanian unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK” Summary Report of Conference, London, 6 June 2017

Photographic Book

Meloni, F., Chase, E., Haile, S. eds. (2017) “Walking a Tightrope Unaccompanied migrant young people, transitions and futures”, London: UCL. 

Academic Articles

Chase, E. 2019. Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: How Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Meloni, F. 2019.The limits of freedom: Migration as a space of freedom and loneliness among Afghan unaccompanied migrant youth. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

R Humphris, N Sigona. 2019. Outsourcing the ‘best interests’ of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Allsopp. J. Chase E. 2019. Best interests, durable solutions and belonging: Policy discourses shaping the futures of unaccompanied migrant and refugee minors coming of age in Europe. JEMS

Meloni, F., Humphris, R. 2019.Citizens of Nowhere? Paradoxes of State Parental Responsibility for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the United Kingdom. Journal of Refugee Studies

Conference Podcast

Podcast of the conference “Walking A Tightrope: Hidden issues, challenges & complexities surrounding the protection needs of Albanian unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK”, London, 6 June 2017

Working Papers

Bozzini, Escaping Eritrea Entering Sidet

Abbasi and Monsutti, “To Everyone Homeland is Kashmir”: Cultural Conceptions of Migration, Wellbeing, Adulthood and Future among Young Afghans in Europe 

Barber and Nguyen, Cultural media in Vietnam


Information Sheets for Participants

Information sheet ENGLISH

Information sheet ALBANIAN

Information sheet VIETNAMESE

Information sheet FARSI

Information Sheet for Participants TIGRIGNA

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