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Researchers studying ways to foster children’s inclusion in society worked with teachers to adapt classroom practices, like dedicated dialogue circles, to online learning.
When a child loses mom or dad to deportation, the harm can be severe and lasting. New immigration bills in the House and Senate seek to avoid family separation and allow deported parents back home.
Immigrant children could remain indefinitely in federal detention if courts allow the Trump administration to ditch a landmark agreement that has protected migrant children for decades.
South Africa is violating its own Constitution, and international obligations when it comes to undocumented children.
Children need more than school resources and qualified teachers to attain academic success.
Psychotropic medication is ‘pharmaceutical violence’ against migrant children and other incarcerated youth throughout the United States. Drug addiction is one consequence.
Canada’s residential school system and the Holocaust offer clear lessons – that the harm done to migrant children will impact multiple generations of Americans.
The US has a long history of separating families. Research shows the long-term effects of that trauma.
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Executive Director, The Florida Institute for Child Welfare, Florida State University
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor, Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, sociology department, University of Toronto
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Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Head, Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber