Protecting migrant children : In search of best practice / edited by Mary Crock (Professor of Public Law, Sydney Law School, the University of Sydney, Australia), Lenni B. Benson (Professor of Law, New York Law School, USA).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Central issues in the protection of child migrants / Mary Crock and Lenni B. Benson -- The where, when and how of children on the move / Arezo Malakooti -- Why they leave : Latin American immigrant youths and their quest for survival / Isabel Martinez -- First things first : international law and the protection of migrant children / Mary Crock and Hannah Martin -- Children and the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees / Mary Crock and Phoebe Yule -- Migrant children and the United Nations protocols against smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons / Andreas Schloenhardt and Joseph Lelliott -- Immigration control and the best interests of the child in Europe / Carmelo Danisi and Mary Crock -- Under siege : alternative care for urban unaccompanied and separated refugee children in Kenya / Agnes Olusese, Shamm Petros and Edwin Odhiambo Abuya -- Defending migrant children and youth in the Inter-American system / Carlos Holguin and Kavita Kapur -- Child migration and trafficking in South-East Asia / Kathryn van Doore -- Regulating child labour in China : a historical perspective of internal child migration / Mimi Zou -- Protecting migrant children in the United Kingdom / Catriona Jarvis and Syd Bolton -- The legal treatment of immigrant children in the United States / David B. Thronson -- Children and refugee law in Australia and the United States / Timnah Baker and Kate Bones -- Protection measures for unaccompanied child migrants in Canada / Geraldine Sadoway -- "These don't look like children to me" : age assessment of unaccompanied and separated children / Mary Anne Kenny and Maryanne Loughry -- Procedure deficits in protection for immigrant children in the United States / Lenni Benson and Claire R. Thomas -- Asylum-seeking children and the Australian protection visa process / Savitri Taylor -- Detention as a last resort : the implications of the Human Rights Committee's General comment no. 35 / Gerald L. Neuman -- The impact of detention on the health, well being and development of children : findings from the second National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention / Gillian Triggs -- The rise and rise of mandatory immigration detention / Daniel Ghezelbash -- Nowhere to turn : the protection needs of children defecting from criminal gangs / Farrin R. Anello -- Don't look behind you : unaccompanied and separated children who have participated in armed conflict in South Sudan / Kasey Tyler and Shelly Whitman -- In search of solutions for unaccompanied children fleeing Central America / Pamela Goldberg.