Trabajo Social y control migratorio. Tensiones en los Sistemas de Protección de Menores [Social Work and Migration Control. Tensions in Child Protection Systems]
Аннотация:The so-called "unaccompanied foreign children" are those teenagers and children who migrate alone and irregularly to europe with no family support.These young people live in a double condition: they are minors who must be protected as well as immigrants who must be controlled.The international legislation on childhood protection regulates the sheltering of such children, who are protected by the different Autonomous Communities.but, could this care generate previous expectations of protection in migrant youth?Could they perceive themselves as consumers in an internationalized social Work system?What has been the reaction of institutions and technicians to this possibility?Research conducted on these institutionally protected minors in the Autonomous Community of Aragon has looked for an answer to these questions.To this end, we have interviewed technicians and adolescents, have processed statistically administrative and demographic data and have systematized observation during professional practice.Results indicate that Autonomous Communities have received implicit and explicit competences on spanish migration policy.explicitly, they are responsible for the protection of these minors, whereas they are implicitly made responsible for avoiding the pull effect that this protection means.Consequent discussion presents a debate on social Work protocols which are developed by local governments in the best interest of minors who migrate on their own in order to make their access to protection more difficult, considering that the best place for these children are their original families.As it happens everywhere, the intention is to prevent clandestine migration in the best interest of the host country.keyWoRds
