This special issue explores the ways unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to
Europe actively deal with the intensification of exclusionary practices towards migrants and …

Why, every year, tens of thousands of people are willing to risk their lives in perilous
voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea? Why do they face such an ordeal to …

This paper offers some behind-the-scenes insights drawn from the collective fieldwork
experiences of the contributors to this Special Issue. These include reflections on: how …

There is little doubt that migrants' experiences of leaving their homes and travelling to settle
in a new place will be profoundly affected by the extent to which they are acting as free …

In migration and refugee studies, migrant deaths have frequently been closely linked to
contemporary forms of border and migration governance. Migrant deaths at sea have also …

More children than ever are crossing international borders alone to seek asylum worldwide.
In the past decade, over a half million children have fled from Central America to the United …

This article discusses how important social markers surrounding the figure of the
unaccompanied minor, such as 'integration'and 'deservingness' are negotiated and made …

Unaccompanied refugee adolescents often have few years to get settled in their host country
before they transition to (a nominal) adulthood. This transition does not take place in a social …

This article offers important empirical insights into young refugees' resettlement experiences,
meanwhile, Danish integration policies underwent a radical turn from integration towards …

This article examines how unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan experience migration
as a space of both freedom and loneliness situated between competing moral frameworks …