Implications of the Hague Convention on the Humanitarian Evacuation and ‘Rescue’ of Children

In this chapter, I examine the history of humanitarian evacuation and ‘rescue’ of children as a form of child welfare practice, the legal and political context of such ‘rescue,’ and, international responses pre-and post-the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (the Hague Convention). The chapter posits that the Hague Convention does not fully protect children from the well-intended, but legally impermissible, humanitarian impulses of child evacuations.