ABSTRACT
Drawing on work spanning a decade, this chapter considers what practical justice means for unaccompanied migrant young people becoming ‘adult’ with uncertain legal status in the UK. As they turn 18, young people may be forced to return to countries of origin or denied further access to public resources. At this juncture the serendipity of justice comes to light, since it is arbitrated by multiple actors governing and/or connected to the different spheres of young people’s lives. These chance and circumstance factors have implications not only for migrant young people but for notions of practical justice more broadly.
