Eritrean Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in The Netherlands: Well-being and Health
Eritrean Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in The Netherlands: Well-being and Health

Author(s): Anna de Haan, Yodit Jacob, Trudy Mooren, Winta Ghebreab
Subject(s): Education, Geography, Regional studies, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare, Welfare services, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Netherlands; migrations; Eritrean minors; UM; unaccompanied minors; refugees; health;
Summary/Abstract: In 2015, 379,766 Eritreans worldwide sought asylum in another country or were on the road (2015, UNHCR). In the last few years there has been a growing number of unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) from Eritrea. Of the 33,380 Eritreans that applied for asylum in Europe in 2016 (IND, 2017), 2870 applied for asylum in the Netherlands, of whom 773 Eritrean URMs (CBS, 2016).

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