The Rights of Asylum Seeking Children In The UK

The rights of asylum seeking children in the UK have come under the spotlight recently with a report in The Guardian that 40 children held in adult detention centres had received a share of £1 million compensation from the Home Office. The children, thought to be as young as 14 began legal proceedings in 2005 for being wrongfully detained.

If you're looking for material on the rights and lives of unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the UK then a good place to start (hint!) is with the publications of our own Prof Ravi Kohli. Ravi has published numerous research articles on the lives of unaccompanied asylum seeking children including the following (you will need to use your network username and password to read the full text).

• Kohli, R.K.S. (2011) 'Working to ensure safety. Belonging and success for unaccompanied aylum-seeking children', Child Abuse Review 20(5), pp. 311-323.


• Kohli, R.K.S. (2006) 'The sound of silence. Listening to what unaccompanied asylum seeking children say and do not say', British Journal of Social Work 36(5), pp. 707-721.


• Kohli, R.K.S. (2006) 'The comfort of strangers. Social work practice with unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people in the UK', Child & Family Social Work, 11(1), pp. 1-10.


• Kohli, R.K.S. and Mather, R. (2003) 'Promoting psychosocial wellbeing in unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the United Kingdom', Child & Family Social Work, 8(3), pp. 201-213.

You can find a whole host of articles on this topic by other authors by searching Ebscohost Research Databases.