Children’s rights at the local level: The European approach to (unaccompanied) children in migration

Refugee and migrant children require specific protection and support. Local level initiatives play an important role in their integration. Initiatives promoting early integration, an individualised approach and prolonged support appear successful.

Stephanie Rap and Marit Buddenbaum • December 14, 2018

Unaccompanied children becoming young adults and the right to family reunion

The CJEU held in A.S. that family reunification of the parents of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child should be allowed if the applicant was a minor when the asylum application was lodged. This affects the family reunification policies of Member States.

Mark Klaassen • April 24, 2018 • 1 comment

The Committee on the Rights of the Child on Female Genital Mutilation and Non-Refoulement

In its first ruling, the Committee on the rights of the Child holds that the deportation of a Somali mother and her baby daughter fearing to undergo FGM would breach Denmark’s obligation to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence.

Mark Klaassen and Peter Rodrigues • March 20, 2018

The right to respect for family life in deportation cases: Is the ECtHR taking a step backwards?

Immigrants are protected from expulsion by the right to respect for private and family life. But in certain circumstances after a criminal conviction, expulsion may be justified. The ECtHR seems to lower the level of protection in its recent case law.

Mark Klaassen and Gerrie Lodder • January 29, 2018

The right of residence for non-EU parents of EU citizen children: the Chavez-Vilchez case

The EU Court of Justice explains the Zambrano doctrine: what matters is not just whether an EU-citizen parent could take care of the child, but whether the child has a relationship of dependency with the non-EU parent.

Mark Klaassen • May 12, 2017 • 17 comments

Divorce of convenience?

According to an AG Opinion, a divorced third-country national parent of a minor EU citizen can get a derived right of residence, even if the other parent is still in the country. Do broken families enjoy more protection under EU law than intact ones?

Mark Klaassen • October 13, 2016

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