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- Title
ALONE AND UNREPRESENTED: A CALL TO CONGRESS TO PROVIDE COUNSEL FOR UNACCOMPANIED MINORS.
- Authors
KING, SHANI M.
- Abstract
The legal rights of children who enter a country without their parents or other guardians, including the right to legal representation in immigration proceed-ings, differ vastly across the globe. This Article is the first to show that unaccom-panied minors lie at the nexus of international and regional human rights standards governing the treatment of immigrants, children, and civil counsel and to show how the development of human rights standards in these three areas underscores the importance of and the need for counsel for unaccompanied mi-nors. Part I illustrates why unaccompanied minors in the United States need legal representation by focusing on the complexity of immigration proceedings, the likelihood that children will be deprived of their liberty at some point in the process, and the law and practice relating to representation. Part II analyzes how developing regional and international legal standards for children's rights, refugee rights, and the right to free civil counsel support the right to free legal counsel for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings. Part III identi-fies the differing approaches to legal representation for unaccompanied minors around the world, and Part IV endorses a model for representation for unac-companied minors based on developing human rights law as well as best prac-tices and ethical standards in the United States. The Article concludes that the recommended model should be at the forefront of U.S. legislative consideration so that the United States does not continue to run afoul of well-developed princi-ples of human rights law affecting unaccompanied minors.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNACCOMPANIED immigrant children; UNITED States. Congress; LEGAL status of children; CHILD advocacy (Law); IMMIGRATION law; HUMAN rights; RIGHT to counsel
- Publication
Harvard Journal on Legislation, 2013, Vol 50, Issue 2, p331
- ISSN
0017-808X
- Publication type
Article