Between protection and exclusion: Separated child migrants' care relationships and caring practices
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Arts and Social Sci (FASS)
Abstract
The promise of this project lies in generating knowledge that both analyses and provides ways to address one of the greatest global challenges of our time: the care and well-being of children affected by transnational displacement and migration. It will offer insights into the care of separated migrant children in England, starting from the premise that care is not necessarily limited to that provided by an adult or the state. Our pilot studies demonstrate that a crucial way separated migrant children survive the challenges of migration and settlement is through the care they provide and receive from other migrant children. Using creative research methods designed to involve separated migrant children and adult stakeholders in reflecting on their understandings and experiences of care, this project will not only point to 'cracks in the system' (Rosen et al., 2017) but offer insights into what constitutes good practice and how to develop it.
This project sits against the backdrop of the displacement of over 65.6 million people globally, many of whom are children. Whilst some have moved with adult family members, the number who have been separated from primary carers at some point during their migration journeys has risen dramatically (Unicef, 2016). Often referred to as 'unaccompanied minors' in legal and policy contexts, we use the term 'separated child migrants' to highlight that many children maintain transnational relationships or reunite with parents at various points in the migration process, and are often accompanied by other kin and non-kin adults and children (Rosen, forthcoming).
When separated migrant children arrive in the UK, they face conflicting treatment. They are protected as 'children' and entitled to the same rights to care as all other children. But, they are often treated as 'suspect' and excluded from welfare provision because of their status as 'migrants' (Crafter, forthcoming). Previous research has highlighted that the tension between immigration control and protection has led to significant differences in the quality of care provided for separated migrant children. New policy and guidance about separated migrant children is both responding to and changing the way these tensions are handled in the UK with, as yet, unknown consequences. In any case, they do not take children's care for each other into account.
Little is known about separated children's care for each other as they navigate contradictory, complex, and changeable immigration and welfare systems. Nor do we know how separated children's care for each other is understood and treated by relevant adult stakeholders, including social workers, foster carers, educators, youth workers, religious leaders, legal professionals, and policy makers. Our pilot studies indicate this neglect means that policies and practices designed to support separated child migrants can end up harming, excluding or discriminating against them. For instance, children who care for each other may be forcibly separated in foster care placements, go 'missing' trying to reunite, or have their 'child' status questioned.
In response, this project makes a needed and timely intervention. Placing separated children at its heart, this study asks: What are separated child migrants' experiences of care and caring for others? How do various economic, social and political factors shape the care priorities of relevant stakeholders? What are the theoretical, policy, and practice implications of varying understandings and practices of care?
This project has been designed by a multidisciplinary research team in collaboration with a range of local and national charities including Refugee Youth and MEENA (for migrant children and women in Birmingham), and involves the Refugee Council, Coram Children's Legal Project, and Barnardo's in an Advisory Group. This broad-based team ensures that the project will have meaningful impact on the lives of separated migrant children.
This project sits against the backdrop of the displacement of over 65.6 million people globally, many of whom are children. Whilst some have moved with adult family members, the number who have been separated from primary carers at some point during their migration journeys has risen dramatically (Unicef, 2016). Often referred to as 'unaccompanied minors' in legal and policy contexts, we use the term 'separated child migrants' to highlight that many children maintain transnational relationships or reunite with parents at various points in the migration process, and are often accompanied by other kin and non-kin adults and children (Rosen, forthcoming).
When separated migrant children arrive in the UK, they face conflicting treatment. They are protected as 'children' and entitled to the same rights to care as all other children. But, they are often treated as 'suspect' and excluded from welfare provision because of their status as 'migrants' (Crafter, forthcoming). Previous research has highlighted that the tension between immigration control and protection has led to significant differences in the quality of care provided for separated migrant children. New policy and guidance about separated migrant children is both responding to and changing the way these tensions are handled in the UK with, as yet, unknown consequences. In any case, they do not take children's care for each other into account.
Little is known about separated children's care for each other as they navigate contradictory, complex, and changeable immigration and welfare systems. Nor do we know how separated children's care for each other is understood and treated by relevant adult stakeholders, including social workers, foster carers, educators, youth workers, religious leaders, legal professionals, and policy makers. Our pilot studies indicate this neglect means that policies and practices designed to support separated child migrants can end up harming, excluding or discriminating against them. For instance, children who care for each other may be forcibly separated in foster care placements, go 'missing' trying to reunite, or have their 'child' status questioned.
In response, this project makes a needed and timely intervention. Placing separated children at its heart, this study asks: What are separated child migrants' experiences of care and caring for others? How do various economic, social and political factors shape the care priorities of relevant stakeholders? What are the theoretical, policy, and practice implications of varying understandings and practices of care?
This project has been designed by a multidisciplinary research team in collaboration with a range of local and national charities including Refugee Youth and MEENA (for migrant children and women in Birmingham), and involves the Refugee Council, Coram Children's Legal Project, and Barnardo's in an Advisory Group. This broad-based team ensures that the project will have meaningful impact on the lives of separated migrant children.
Planned Impact
By providing new data and knowledge about separated child migrants' experiences of care, and caring for others, as they navigate the complexities of the immigration-welfare nexus in England, the Separated Child Migrants and Care (SCM-C) project will respond to two ESRC strategic priorities: 'Supporting innovative health and social care delivery' (ESRC 1) through the care of vulnerable young people, and addressing the protection-control tension that lies at the heart of 'liberal governance' (ESRC 2) in relation to migrant children. Our key message is that care plays a critical role in the wellbeing of separated child migrants, but that care is not limited to that which is supplied by an adult or the state. Accessing the how and the why of care through first-hand accounts and broader social fields (cultural political economy, media and policy) can improve approaches to separated child migrants' care.
Who will benefit from this research?
This research has the potential to benefit vulnerable communities and a range of interdisciplinary stakeholders, including:
-Separated child migrants
-Young migrants
-NGOs / charities
-Professional and non-professional stakeholders
-Policy makers
-General public
In our pilot studies, stakeholders across multiple sectors indicated that they struggle to provide adequate care for separated children as a result of significant 'cracks in the system' (Rosen et al., 2017). Migrant children's care for each other was considered important in principle but stakeholders had not thought about how to incorporate this in the care they provide to separated children.
How will they benefit from our research?
There will be a range of practical benefits from delivering the aims and objectives of this project. The study makes a concrete commitment to the lives of young migrants through training Young Researchers (YRs) in research and writing skills, arts-based activities and dissemination (with payment). It involves bringing together a diverse range of adult stakeholders to identify and develop good practice in the care of separated migrant children. Materials will uniquely reflect the limitations under which practitioners operate but be based on the needs of separated child migrants, rather than assumptions about their needs. More broadly, the research will generate important and significant insights to inform regional and national law, policy and practice, ensuring that it takes account of care relationships valued by separated child migrants. Our analysis will tackle the impact of Brexit on migration and care entitlements, linking with the new coalition of children's experts (including Stalford and Dorling). Our project has the potential to make an important contribution to public understandings of separated child migrants' care, which often reflects tensions between protection and control apparent in media coverage and state policy.
How will we provide opportunities to engage with the research?
The research team and Advisory Group have well-established connections to representatives and stakeholders in the communities involved in this research. This will assist us to reach beyond disciplinary pockets, thereby enabling the sharing of good practice more widely. YRs, who are migrants themselves, provide a crucial bridge with separated child migrants. The team have secured the support from key agencies working with young migrants, including Refugee Youth, MEENA, Refugee Council, Barnardo's and CORAM (who also sit on our AG). This support of both regional and national organisations is critical for ensuring local needs are addressed whilst enabling a wider impact.
Other means for delivering a significant package of public engagement and generating impact are:
-Project website
-Project events: community-based and academic/professional
-Briefing papers: law, policy and practice
-Working papers
-Online interactive materials aimed at stakeholders
-Talks at schools and professional events
Who will benefit from this research?
This research has the potential to benefit vulnerable communities and a range of interdisciplinary stakeholders, including:
-Separated child migrants
-Young migrants
-NGOs / charities
-Professional and non-professional stakeholders
-Policy makers
-General public
In our pilot studies, stakeholders across multiple sectors indicated that they struggle to provide adequate care for separated children as a result of significant 'cracks in the system' (Rosen et al., 2017). Migrant children's care for each other was considered important in principle but stakeholders had not thought about how to incorporate this in the care they provide to separated children.
How will they benefit from our research?
There will be a range of practical benefits from delivering the aims and objectives of this project. The study makes a concrete commitment to the lives of young migrants through training Young Researchers (YRs) in research and writing skills, arts-based activities and dissemination (with payment). It involves bringing together a diverse range of adult stakeholders to identify and develop good practice in the care of separated migrant children. Materials will uniquely reflect the limitations under which practitioners operate but be based on the needs of separated child migrants, rather than assumptions about their needs. More broadly, the research will generate important and significant insights to inform regional and national law, policy and practice, ensuring that it takes account of care relationships valued by separated child migrants. Our analysis will tackle the impact of Brexit on migration and care entitlements, linking with the new coalition of children's experts (including Stalford and Dorling). Our project has the potential to make an important contribution to public understandings of separated child migrants' care, which often reflects tensions between protection and control apparent in media coverage and state policy.
How will we provide opportunities to engage with the research?
The research team and Advisory Group have well-established connections to representatives and stakeholders in the communities involved in this research. This will assist us to reach beyond disciplinary pockets, thereby enabling the sharing of good practice more widely. YRs, who are migrants themselves, provide a crucial bridge with separated child migrants. The team have secured the support from key agencies working with young migrants, including Refugee Youth, MEENA, Refugee Council, Barnardo's and CORAM (who also sit on our AG). This support of both regional and national organisations is critical for ensuring local needs are addressed whilst enabling a wider impact.
Other means for delivering a significant package of public engagement and generating impact are:
-Project website
-Project events: community-based and academic/professional
-Briefing papers: law, policy and practice
-Working papers
-Online interactive materials aimed at stakeholders
-Talks at schools and professional events
Publications
Hadfield-Hill S
(2023)
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people - six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
in Children's Geographies
Crafter S
(2021)
Precarious Care and (Dis)Connections Adults Working With Separated Child Migrants in England and Their Understandings of Care
in International Perspectives in Psychology
Rosen R
(2019)
An absent presence: separated child migrants' caring practices and the fortified neoliberal state
in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Rosen R
(2021)
Participatory research in and against time
in Qualitative Research
Aissatou
(2022)
Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times
in Sociological Research Online
| Title | Stories too big for a case file: Unaccompanied young people confront the hostile environment |
| Description | Stories too big for a case file is a short film that showcases the testimonies of young, unaccompanied refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants as they navigate 'the system' in the UK. This is a tangled web of institutions, policies and individuals who are meant to care for children on the move, but often do not. In the film, individual stories emerge from a cacophony of voices to highlight common problems in the UK's hostile border regime. They also show unaccompanied young people's refusal to be reduced to a singular story, endemic in bureaucratic case files. Voices evoke the violence unaccompanied young people feel when repeatedly asked, or made, to tell their story, as well as the violence of not being asked nor being heard, and most of all their strength in the face of injustices. The film was collaboratively produced by Young Researchers with migration experiences and university-based researchers, along with director Louis Brown from East London Cable. For the past two years, the research team has been working together on the participatory project Children Caring on the Move (CCoM) to design and carry out research about unaccompanied young people's experiences of care. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The film was launched on 1 December 2021 to an online audience of 156 people. We have received invitations and have subsequently shown it to university classes, third sector organisations, and plan to show it more widely. |
| URL | https://www.ccomstudy.com/index.php/2021/11/29/film-stories-too-big-for-a-case-file/ |
| Description | The overall aim of CCoM was to investigate how separated child migrants, and those involved in their care, make sense of, value, and take part in care relationships and caring practices within the immigration-welfare nexus in England. We did this using a combination of participatory action approaches and qualitative social science methods. QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTION WITH SEPARATED CHILD MIGRANTS' CARE RELATIONSHIPS AND CARING PRACTICES: We now have carried out a total of 75 interviews with 38 unaccompanied young people in two major cities. The interviews were led by a group of Young Researchers who were trained by the university research team with participatory and interview methods. For each interview the Young Research was accompanied by a member of the university research team. Each young person was invited to 2-3 interviews over a 6-12 month period. These included (i) object-based interviews where participants were asked to bring an object that represents care; (ii) photo elicitation focused on a 'day in the life' of the participant; and (iii) walking interviews to see places of (un)caring. For the first interview, we asked participants to bring an object that means 'care' to them. Young people have brought telephones and computers, focusing on the importance of these devices for communicating with those they care for, gaining knowledge which is an act of self/collective care, and storing care memories (e.g., photos). Others have brought memorabilia from people they care about including messages scratched on small pieces of paper, as well as money, jewellery, or other objects given to them by loved ones. Some young people have also brought important papers related to their immigration status. For them, the papers represent how important status is to access care support or as a way of talking about how care can be undermined by the precarity of immigration status. For the second interview, one of the teams asked participants to share 'a day in their life' through videos, photos, voice notes, and text. In the interviews we speak about the way that young people spend their days, which provides insights into everyday activities as well as infrastructures, barriers, and facilitators of care. We also catch glimpses of caring encounters or times when care is experienced as lacking. One of the teams also uses photography as a method, but they ask participants to take pictures of things they care for, or care about. Participants have shared photographs looking out of their windows, speaking to us about the feeling of indeterminate waiting for their immigration status to be settled - feelings that have been exacerbated by Covid. They have shared images of inspiring quotes that they read to themselves to maintain a sense of hope and inspiration in this context. They have shared images of books they are reading, games they play, and videos they watch as ways of keeping occupied, teaching themselves, and connecting with others. Some have shared messages they have written to those they care about - messages of appreciation, concern, and connection. ADULT STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVES ON CARE RELATIONSHIPS AND PRACTICES: We have conducted 64 semi-structured interviews with adult participants about their understandings practices of and perspectives on care. Our interview questions focused on examining the interviewee's background, their broad experience of caring for separated child migrants and their role in their lives; the interviewee's own understandings of care, care relationships and caring practices; how care changes over time; their views on the wider economic, social and political priorities and challenges that influences their 'care' and support practices. For ethical reasons we have developed a broad set of descriptions for the range of adult stakeholders that we interviewed. They include Project Coordinators (in Education/Charity) who oversee multiple projects in their settings. We also interviewed Project Managers (in Education/Charity, State Social Work, Arts in Charity, NGO sectors) who tend to line mange those who work directly with young people. Other interviews took place with 'Direct workers' (e.g., Charity advocates, state and independent social workers, foster carers, educators, paediatricians and educators), who are those who have direct and regular contact with young people. Other stakeholders covered areas such as mental health/therapy (working in NGO settings), interpreters, immigration lawyers and border force. At this point, we have carried out a broad thematic analysis of our data. Our initial analysis suggests four key themes: a) Affective labour or emotions, b) Plugging the gaps, c) Care relationships and practices, and d) Barriers and facilitators to care. a) 'Affective labour or emotions' refer to the personal and emotional burden reported by the adults about their practice as well as the burdens they recognise are shouldered by young people. Under this theme, we also have codes that relate to adult perspectives about: young people's capacity to care; young people experiencing a loss of care due to losing a support person, travel partner, losses back home or structural changes in their transition to adulthood; as well as the care that they receive with support from their community. b) 'Plugging the gaps' refer to those actions of the adult stakeholders or young people that involve going above and beyond their professional duty or structurally entrusted roles. c) 'Care relationships and practices' was a large theme that encompassed meanings of care and examples of care. Codes within this theme refer to young people's care of each other as an act of solidarity or friendship; trusting relationships and what they might look like; descriptions of material care (i.e. the act of providing basic care to meet basic needs like food, shelter, safety); the care connections or disconnections forged between adults and young people; the act of understanding and empathetic listening; practising care as 'family-like'; adult-stakeholders' accounts using their own insider knowledge/status; and adults talking about their part in young people's successes. d) The theme 'Barriers and facilitators to care' refers to the range of difficulties and challenges faced by adult stakeholders, and their descriptions of challenges facing young people. These include adult stakeholders' struggles or burdens due to demands of particular roles and responsibilities; their struggles with professional boundaries; systemic barriers and tensions created by state policies; the impact of multi-professional working; reference to language as a barrier; adult stakeholders taking on the role of policing young people; young people feeling stuck, insecure and uncertain being immobilised by the system; role played by resources/money or lack of it; the impact of professionals' past experiences as well as the present time on care of the young people; professional's perceptions and misperceptions about childhood, age, family, role, and care; the impact of the pandemic on young people; and cultural assumptions, prejudices, and sensitivities discussed or practiced by adults. Over the coming year, we plan to enhance our thematic analysis with a detailed discourse analysis of parts of our data. A further series of interviews focused on (semi-)independent accommodation: 15 interviews with company directors or managers; 10 interviews with LA procurement and placement staff; 10 interviews with frontline LA workers; and 3 with third sector advocates. This was complimented by 11 interviews with regional and national level policy makers, professionals, and voluntary sector staff about broader policy issues; Freedom of Information requests to the Home Office and focus LAs; and reviews of providers' financial records as filed with Companies House, the body responsible for incorporation and registration of businesses in the UK. Our interviews cover stakeholders' experiences of working at or with (semi)independent accommodations; the nature, size, location, and staffing of these accommodations; types of organisations providing this accommodation; financial status and imperatives; perspectives on current policy; placement process; nature of support received in these accommodations; and opportunities and challenges faced by separated child migrants living in semi-independent accommodation, among others. |
| Exploitation Route | We are currently using the findings to develop outputs aimed at both separated child migrants and adult stakeholders who are connected with them. Examples include the development of a short digital film about unaccompanied young people's experiences 'the system' in the UK. The stories used in the film 'Stories too big for a case file' were taken from the interviews with young people. Since then, we have developed online training course for social care practitioners which is evidence-informed by the CCoM project. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education |
| URL | https://www.ccomstudy.com/ |
| Description | DIGITAL FILM DEVELOPMENT - STORIES TOO BIG FOR A CASE FILE: UNACCOMPANIED YOUNG PEOPLE CONFRONT THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT. In early Spring 2021, our team was invited by the journal Sociological Research Online to contribute a creative piece about our research. We took up the challenge as a way to start thinking about and sharing what we were learning in more depth. We agreed that we wanted to make a film to share unaccompanied young people's experiences 'the system' in the UK. This is a tangled web of institutions, policies and individuals who are meant to care for children on the move, but often do not. We wanted to show how similar many people's experiences are, at the same time as showing that each young person has their own complex and unique story. Using the interview data from WP1, the research team and young researchers worked together to select quotes that reflected key themes or story points. The Young Researchers then 'revoiced' the quotes for them film. We then used smart phones to record short clips of everyday life which symbolised the powerful words of the participants. We worked with director Louis Brown from East London Cable to turn this into a 13-minute film: Stories too big for a case file: Unaccompanied young people confront the hostile environment. https://www.ccomstudy.com/index.php/category/multimedia/. A screening event was organised followed by a Q&A. This was attended by 156 people. Since then, the film has been had 13 additional showings to both academic and non-academic audiences. CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLICY CONSULTATIONS - The CCoM team also made several contributions to calls to evidence on care review and enquiries. They include: - Briefing note for Baroness Tyler of Enfield: Debate on the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/161); Submission to the Children's Social Care Review Call for Evidence; Submission to the Education Select Committee Inquiry into Children's Homes; UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Consultation on Children's Rights and Alternative Care; Children's Commissioner Family Review (September, 2022) ONLINE SOCIAL CARE PRACTITIONER TRAINING: PRACTISING WITH CARE IN MIND: LEARNING FROM PROFESSIONALS AND UNACCOMPANIED ASYLUM-SEEKING CHILDREN. In February 2023, the team launched a new online course aimed at social workers, senior practitioners, personal advisors and other professionals and practitioners working with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) and separated or lone migrant young people. A key feature of this course is that it is evidence-informed, which means it is based on research findings from CCoM project and includes the use of the digital film created by the young people. The purpose of the training course is to help social care professionals, practitioners and other professionals and practitioners working with UASC think about their reflexive practice in relation to the care of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) and separated or lone migrant young people. https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=9170 |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Accommodation needs of looked after children for the Education Select Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Unknown at this time |
| Description | Children's Commissioner Family Review: Family and its protective effect |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/family/family-review/ |
| Description | Contribution to debate on the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/161) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Response to Governments New Immigration Plan |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Submission to the Children's Social Care Review Call for Evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Unknown at this time |
| Description | Training for social care practitioners: Practising with care in mind: Learning from professionals and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=9170 |
| Description | UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Day of General Discussion (DGD): "Children's Rights and Alternative Care" |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Unknown at this time |
| Description | (NEW ABC) - Networking the Educational World: Across Boundaries for Community-building |
| Amount | € 3,111,896 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101004640 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Relational wellbeing in the lives of refugee young people in Finland, Norway and Scotland |
| Amount | € 1,300,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 94863 |
| Organisation | NordForsk |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | Social reproduction in the shadows: Making lives with 'no recourse to public funds' (Shadows) |
| Amount | £762,222 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/X000265/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 06/2026 |
| Description | Vulnerable children in a hostile environment: The legal and social impacts of covid-19 on young unaccompanied asylum-seekers in England |
| Amount | £354,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/W000474/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Welfare transformations and children's reproductive labour: Advancing social reproduction theory through interdisciplinary dialogue |
| Amount | £74,826 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Independent Social Research Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2023 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Charity/NGO collaboration |
| Organisation | British Red Cross |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Red Cross is a partner organisation involved with Work Package 1. Our team members are working with young separated child migrants attending the Red Cross organisation. This facilitate opportunities for separated children to shape understandings of their care experiences and improve their treatment, as well as develop relationships with other young migrants and research, policy, and practitioner communities |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Red Cross has facilitated access to a small group of separated child migrants who are being trained as Young Researchers to use participatory approaches in design, data collection, and analysis. |
| Impact | This collaboration is in the early stages of relationship building |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Between waithood and alternative futures: children and young people on the move |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 40 people attended this Youth Mobility Webinar hosted by the UCL Global Youth Centre on 1st June 2021 when Rachel ROsen presented a talk called 'Between waithood and alternative futures: children and young people on the move'. This sparked discussion on co-production as well as the care practices of unaccompanied young people and how these can be supported. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Children Caring on the Move |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rachel Rosen gave a talk at the 'Pint of Science' public seminar series on 10 May 2022, sparking discussion about unaccompanied children and young people's experiences of the UK's hostile environment for migrants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Children Caring on the Move: Report 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is the first project report for Children Caring on the Move. The report provides readers with an update of the progress of our research. Detailed in this report is the progress the Work Package 1 team have made working with migrant Young Researchers (YRs). We provide an overview of the advancements made for Work Package 2, where we are seeking the views of a range of adult stakeholders' perspectives on care relationships and practices. The Work Package 3 team provide an overview of their work examining the political economy of separated child migrants care, with a focus on semi-independent accommodation, and a legal framework analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ccomstudy.com/index.php/2020/08/10/ccom-report-1-july-2020/ |
| Description | Children Caring on the Move: Report 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is the second interim report on the progress of the Children Caring on the Move project. The pandemic slowed down our data collection but the team have achieved a considerable amount. In this issue we discuss the rich data we have collected, the initial stages of our analysis and some of our dissemination activities to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ccomstudy.com/index.php/2022/02/11/cc0m-report-2-february-2022/ |
| Description | Children of migration as brokers of 'care' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this Inaugural Lecture for a Professorship I drew on data from the AHRC-funded project 'Child language brokering: Spaces of belonging and mediators of cultural identity. Of those who completed the feedback form: • 95% said that the lecture had met their expectations • 100% said that they would recommend the lecture to others based on this event • 86% provided additional comments which were all positive about the fact that the lecture was engaging, inspiring and thought-provoking There were: 84 live views 117 unique views Social media reach: 32.9K Online comments were mostly from adult language brokers working with probationary service, paediatrics and NGOs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.open.ac.uk/research/events/children-migration-brokers-care |
| Description | Children on the Move website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Children Caring on the Move project publishes regular blog entries written by the team and the young researchers engaged in activities through participatory methods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.ccomstudy.com/ |
| Description | Children on the Move: Unsettling narratives of care, childhood, and the migration 'crisis' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This was a series of three workshop symposium designed to create a dialogue about crisis narratives embedded in popular discourse and a good deal of academic scholarship. The ways in which care, childhood and migration are conceptualised have important implications for the provision of, and access to, necessary resources, infrastructures and relationships of care. The event asked the following questions: • How is care recognised, understood, constrained, fractured, and practiced in the context of a multiplicity of "migration crisis" narratives? • How do diverse global understandings of care and childhood come into contact, conflict with, and/or amplify each other and "migration crisis" narratives? • What are the diverse and diffuse effects of the intersections of care, childhood, and "migration crisis" narratives for children and young people living migrating in and through diverse global contexts? The events were attended by between 60-85 delegates who were made up of activists/academics and artists working in the area of migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Contestation at the borderlands between migration, childhood and care: An exploration of child language brokers and lone child migrants. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited talk for the launch of the Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC). It was attended by non-academic and academic audiences. OPRC Launch Event Attendance on Thursday 1 July 2022- 103 attendees As of 02/03/2022: Blogs in Wordpress: Talk: 'Contestation at the borderlands between migration, childhood and care: An exploration of child language brokers and lone child migrants' - 22 views: Contestation at the borderlands between migration, childhood and care: An exploration of child language brokers and lone child migrants - OU Psychology & Counselling (wordpress.com) "In Dialogue with Professor Sarah Crafter about her Talk at the OPRC Launch Event" - 84 views: In Dialogue with Professor Sarah Crafter about her Talk at the OPRC Launch Event - OU Psychology & Counselling (wordpress.com) YouTube: Talk- 75 views: Sarah Crafter: Contestation at the borderlands between migration, childhood and care - YouTube |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.open.ac.uk/centres/psychology/launch-event-talks/sarah-crafter |
| Description | How should Save the Children UK depict children? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | 42 people who work for Save the Children international attended this lunchtime 'brown bag conversation' about the topic 'How should Save the Children UK depict children?'. This invited talk sparked discussed about the challenges of representations of children as fundamentally traumatised, vulnerable, and innocent and the implications for how Save supports children in various communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Participatory research: Cultivating an ethics of care and discomfort |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Workshop for academics, students and third sector organisations called: Tinkuy: Encuentro de experiencias en infancia, cuidado y migraciones. It sparked discussion on research co-production with children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Stories too big for a case file |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of project film 'Stories too big for a case file' followed by Q&A sparking discussion about the experiences of unaccompanied children and young people in the UK's hostile immigration environment at the following dates/locations: 1.9.2021 Film Geographies, Special panel at Borders, borderlands and bordering: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021. London/zoom 20 people 1.12.2021 Film launch. zoom 139 6.12.2021 MSc Global Migration students (UCL) 21 10.2.2022 Displaced Collective 40 18.05.2022 SLRA 5 young people, 3 staff 28.02.2022 Love to Learn, South London, in person Approx. 25 mainly mentors and approx. 8 young people 22.06.22 Refugee Council, Croydon 25 young people, mostly newly arrived 21.06.22 Give Back Project Plymouth June 21st from 6 to 8 pm at the University of Plymouth's cinema. - online participation Part of Refugee Week Moving Worlds festival Around 20-30 people (hybrid event) Refugee Week 2022 Haus der Statistik Dr Natasha Davis Artist, Producer, Lecturer + 44 (0) 7947 482248 natasha@natashaproductions.com https://www.refugeeweekberlin.com/networking Screened as part of Refugee Week event 20, hybrid 24.06.22 Cambridge University Press & Assessment Racial Equality and Ethnic Disparities Staff Network Around 25 people on zoom 13.07.22 Danish Study Abroad Summer Programme 20 people at UCL 10.10.22 'An evening of Sensory Film'. The event will take place at Bloomsbury Studio on 10th Oct 2022, from 18:30-20.:30. Details and tickets for the event are available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/whats-on/evening-sensory-film 30 people at UCL 17.10.22 Migration MSc UCL 34 people, online 17.11.2022 Centre for Impact and Evaluation - What works in children's social care via Ellie Epp 8 people online 14 people in the room |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Stories too big for a case file: In Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview of Rachel ROsen and Mey, one of the CCoM Young Researchers, for Moving Worlds, https://movingworlds.info/blog/f/stories-too-big-for-a-case-file-in-conversation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Who cares for you? Child migrants within the immigration and welfare nexus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A podcast with Rosen, Rachel and two CCoM Young Researchers Mika and Guili about participatory research and CCoM findings for the UCL IOE Research for the Real World Podcast series.https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/oct/who-cares-you-child-migrants-within-immigration-and-welfare-nexus-rftrw-s17e04?utm_source=itw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0410 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | [Keynote] Caring for well-being: Unpacking the complexities of care |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rachel Rosen gave a keynote talk for the Social Pedagogy Professional Association's Annual Conference: Food for our Thoughts: The Role of Social Pedagogy in Sustainable Wellbeing. It sparked discussion with teachers and social workers about children's caring practices and how interpretations of care affect young people's experiences in the care system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | [Keynote] Childhood and care in times of crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rachel Rosen gave a keynote talk entitled 'Childhood and care in times of crisis' at a conference for academics and practitioners (teachers, early childhood educators, social workers), sparking discussion about children's caring practices. Conference entitled Childhood, care, and covid at Northumbria University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |