CHILD UP - Report on Legislation

The CHILD-UP project investigates the social conditions of migrant children’s integration through social participation, taking into account gender differences, legal status and age groups, with the final aim to propose an innovative approach to understand and transform their social condition. In support of this aim, the current two part report provides an overview of migrant children’s wellbeing, protection and education as well as a comparative investigation of the legislation in partner countries that most deeply impacts young migrants and their families. In selected contexts in seven countries, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, the research focuses on policies and practices of integration, migrant children’s access to basic services, their enrollment in school, and the differences that exist for children of different migratory statuses. This report includes data on recent migration flows of children to Europe and to the specific regions of the partners. It has gathered information on how children arrived (on their own -unaccompanied, with families who are documented or undocumented, or as refugees). It offers an assessment of wellbeing of migrant children and their families as evaluated through available data on access to healthcare services, housing, employment, and the time children have spent out of school. It further includes approaches to family reunification, the training of workers who support migrants, and migrant children’s access to and placement in school. This report is the culminating document of work package 3, and subsequent work packages include quantitative and qualitative data, analysis of examples of educational practices of integration, and finally, proposals of innovation in dialogic practices of integration as active participation.CHILD-U