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

要了解英国社会对无人陪伴的寻求庇护者和难民儿童的反应，我们不仅要看英国的法律，还要看社会影响--从选民对移民的焦虑到慈善行动--如何影响政策制定者和公民社会利益相关者如何应用、执行和挑战法律。出于这个原因，我们必须关注法庭，但也要关注课堂；不仅是正规的教育机构，还有非正式的慈善机构。对于这一博士学位，我试图研究后者，即为无人陪伴的寻求庇护的儿童和难民儿童设立的慈善部门项目，以增加我们对现代英国社会如何应对儿童难民的社会研究了解。我将通过一种跨学科的社会法律方法进行这项研究，这种方法将社会科学和法学的学术见解与慈善部门工作人员的实践者见解相结合。调查结果将解释公共和慈善部门之间和内部的监管制度之间的相互作用，这些制度已经决定了无人陪伴的寻求庇护和难民儿童的治理方式。我将特别关注慈善部门为无人陪伴的寻求庇护的儿童和难民儿童提供的‘难民支持’是否承担着照顾和内政部的法定要求。这一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有益的还是必要的，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国家的更好服务。

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.