An examination of British society's response to child refugees through an analysis of charity sector support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

要了解英国社会如何应对无人陪伴的寻求庇护儿童和难民儿童，我们不仅要关注其法律，还要关注社会影响，从选民对移民的焦虑到慈善活动，如何影响政策制定者和民间社会利益相关者应用，执行和挑战法律。为此，我们必须关注法庭，但教室;不仅是正规教育环境，而且是非正规的慈善部门计划。对于这个博士学位，我试图研究后者，慈善部门计划为无人陪伴的寻求庇护和难民儿童，以增加我们的社会研究了解现代英国社会1如何应对儿童难民。我将通过跨学科的社会法律方法进行这项研究，该方法将社会科学和法律的学术见解与慈善部门工作者的实践见解相结合。调查结果将解释公共和慈善部门之间和内部监管制度的相互作用，这些制度已经形成了无人陪伴的寻求庇护儿童和难民儿童的管理方式。特别是我将集中在慈善部门“难民支持”无人陪伴的寻求庇护和难民儿童是否承担照顾和内政部职责的法定要求。这项分析将帮助我们的社会决定慈善部门对难民儿童的支持是否有益或必要，或者无人陪伴的寻求庇护和难民儿童是否会像英国儿童一样得到更好的服务。

To understand how British society is responding to unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children we must not simply look to its laws, but also to how societal influences, from voter anxiety concerning immigration to charitable activism, impact how policy makers and civil society stakeholders apply, enforce and challenge the laws. For this reason we must look to court rooms, but to classrooms; not only formal education settings, but informal, charity sector programs. For this PhD I seek to examine the latter, charity sector programs for unaccompanied Asylum Seeking and Refugee children, to increase our social research understanding about how modern British society1 responds to child refugees. I will undertake this research through an interdisciplinary socio-legal approach which combines the academic insights of Social Science and Law with the practitioner insights of charity sector workers. The findings will explain the interplay of regulatory regimes across and within the public and charity sector which have come to shape how unaccompanied Asylum Seeking and Refugee children are governed. In particular I will focus on whether charity sector 'Refugee Support' for unaccompanied Asylum Seeking and Refugee children is shouldering statutory requirements of care and Home Office duties. This analysis will help our society decide whether charity sector support for refugee children is beneficial or necessary, or whether unaccompanied Asylum Seeking and Refugee children would be better served by the state, like British children.