Unaccompanied Young People in Policy and Research

This chapter gives the background to the research context. It starts with a section containing an analysis of the immigration, border and asylum policy frameworks and the migration governance that shapes the lives of unaccompanied young people. This section will also involve looking at some of the key challenges these policies pose for unaccompanied young people. The next section provides an overview of the empirical literature on unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK and belonging, revealing some of the current research gaps. Following the discussion of this literature, the next and last sections discuss some of the key details around the research design and methodology.