ABSTRACT
Over 50 per cent of global refugees are children and 13 per cent of global migrants are children. Neither of these are dramatic recent developments – they are patterns that have been in place for years. Nevertheless, concerns about the human rights violations to which children on the move are subject, both as they move across borders and as refugees and immigrants after their arrival, have only recently been widely expressed. Also recent is the high-level attention to lacunae in child migration policy, including in the measures used to receive, house and make decisions about children. Efforts are now underway to ensure that the ambitious promises articulated in the September 2016 UN New York Declaration on large movements of refugees and migrants are translated into workable and sustainable policies whose impact can be measured and evaluated.
