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Please see 2 parts of this WUNRN
release
on Unaccompanied Migrant
Children/Girls.
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"Unaccompanied migrant girls are at particular risk of
gender-based violence and sexual exploitation and are often exploited in
domestic work in servitude like situations."
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STATEMENT
BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMMITTEE ON MIGRANT WORKERS, MR. ABDELHAMID EL
JAMRI, AND THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS, MR. JORGE
BUSTAMANTE ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY 2008 |
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18
December 2008
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Direct Link to Publication:
Development Research Centre on
Migration, Globalisation &
Poverty
August 2008
Independent Child Migration:
Introducing Children's Perspectives
"The vast majority of the child
migrants in the Migration DRC's studies were adolescents who were 13 to 17
years of age at the time they first migrated.
Many of these children were from
poor rural areas with high rates of adult migration, where moving to find work
was a common means of supplementing family incomes.
In rural areas the quality of
schooling is usually of a comparatively poor standard, and children from poor
families typically do not possess the financial resources to access better
educational opportunities. A lack of educational qualifications can limit the
types of jobs children seek when they migrate from the countryside to cities -
and often leads to their finding low-skilled work in the informal sector.
Prescribed gender roles can shape
children's migration experiences as well. In both South Asia and West Africa,
girls and boys largely work in very different types of jobs, and opportunities
for girls tend to be much more restricted, with domestic work being common.
In addition to these constraints,
children often lack a nuanced understanding of their migration destinations,
making them unprepared for risks they may face, especially when moving from
rural areas to cities."
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