United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child.
Use links provided in attached assignment details…….ALSO BOOK “TELL ME HOW IT ENDS”
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#1 of 2 – PRIMARY DOCUMENT
The book, Valeria Luiselli’s, Tell Me How It Ends, specifically explores the treatment of Unaccompanied Minors in the immigration court. The interviews took place with the first wave of Central American children crossing the border alone in 2014-2015.
Below is a link with background information regarding the crush of thousands of children crossing the border alone 2014-2015 – these are the children represented by Luiselli:
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/guide-children-arriving-border-laws-policies-and-responses
Kathy Smith-Wenning, your instructor, was a volunteer child advocate for The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights in 2016 and 2017 and accompanied a 7 year old little girl to immigration court in NYC. This is the same court where Valeria Luiselli was an interpreter for children seeking asylum in 2014 and 2015, background information below:
https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/nyregion/in-new-york-separated-children-questions-unanswered.html
Definitions:
Unaccompanied children or minors is the group of children interviewed by Luiselli as she acted on their behalf as an interpreter. Children are placed into different catagories depending upon the legal status of their residence in the U.S. :
1. What does “unaccompanied children” mean?
Children who arrive in the United States alone or who are required to appear in immigration court on their own often are referred to as unaccompanied children or unaccompanied minors.
“Unaccompanied alien child” (UAC) is a technical term defined by law as a child who “(A) has no lawful immigration stat¬us in the United States; (B) has not attained 18 years of age; and (C) with respect to whom—(i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States; or (ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody.”
Due to their vulnerability, these young migrants receive certain protections under U.S. law. The immigration laws do not define the term “accompanied” children, but children arriving in the United States with a parent or guardian are considered accompanied.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/guide-children-arriving-border-laws-policies-and-responses
2. What happens to children separated from their family because of the “Zero Tolerance Policy?
They are classified as “unaccompanied alien children” (UACs) and placed into a shelter operated by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. When a parent is charged criminally for unlawful entry, the child is separated (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. from his or her parent because the child cannot be housed in criminal jails, and thus is deemed as a UAC crossing the border.
Under the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents must turn UACs over (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) within 72 hours after the agency’s screening. HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) then places the kids into a shelter (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. until they are released to a family member, guardian or foster family.
https://immigrationforum.org/article/factsheet-family-separation-at-the-u-s-mexico-border/
3. What is the category of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
On June 15, 2012, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal.
They are also eligible for work authorization. Deferred action is a use of prosecutorial discretion to defer removal action against an individual for a certain period of time. Deferred action does not provide lawful status.
#2 of 2 – PRIMARY DOCUMENT – MUST REVIEW:
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was convened by the United Nations – complete document attached and the summary found below:
The UN Convention consists of 41 articles, each of which details a different type of right.
These rights are not ranked in order of importance; instead they interact with one another to form one integrated set of rights. A common approach is to group these articles together under the following themes:
1. Survival rights: include the child’s right to life and the needs that are most basic to existence, such as nutrition, shelter, an adequate living standard, and access to medical services.
2. Development rights: include the right to education, play, leisure, cultural activities, access to information, and freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.
3. Protection rights: ensure children are safeguarded against all forms of abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including special care for refugee children; safeguards for children in the criminal justice system; protection for children in employment; protection and rehabilitation for children who have suffered exploitation or abuse of any kind.
4. Participation rights: encompass children’s freedom to express opinions, to have a say in matters affecting their own lives, to join associations and to assemble peacefully. As their capacities develop, children should have an increasing opportunity to participate in the activities of society, in preparation for adulthood. https://www.childrensrights.ie/childrens-rights-ireland/un-convention-rights-child
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ASSIGNMENT DETAILS
COMPLETE A 250-300 word discussion centered on the book, Tell Me How It Ends. You will incorporate the topics from the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child. You will find a minimum of 3 of the topics and discuss how, from Luisellis’ book, these broad human rights topics were met or violated by treatment of the child while here in the U.S. and under the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, in detention, or weaving their way through the immigration court system in an attempt to win asylum here in the United States.
THIS IS WRITTEN IN ESSAY FORMAT – NO BULLET AND ANSWER – ESSAY FORMAT ONLY – include at least three of the following rights that have been violated or met while the children discussed in the book tell their story through the 40 questions:
1. Survival rights: include the child’s right to life and the needs that are most basic to existence, such as nutrition, shelter, an adequate living standard, and access to medical services.
2. Development rights: include the right to education, play, leisure, cultural activities, access to information, and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
3. Protection rights: ensure children are safeguarded against all forms of abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including special care for refugee children; safeguards for children in the criminal justice system; protection for children in employment; protection and rehabilitation for children who have suffered exploitation or abuse of any kind.
4. Participation rights: encompass children’s freedom to express opinions, to have a say in matters affecting their own lives, to join associations and to assemble peacefully.
As their capacities develop, children should have an increasing opportunity to participate in the activities of society, in preparation for adulthood.
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