Best interests, durable solutions and belonging: policy discourses shaping the futures of unaccompanied migrant and refugee minors coming of age in Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Jennifer Allsopp ◽  
Elaine Chase
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Durable Solutions ◽  
Refugee Minors ◽  
Policy Discourses

scholarly journals An Exploration of Person-Centred Approach in End-of-Life Care Policies in England and Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Fang ◽  
Miho Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Policy Discourses

Abstract Background: Increasing evidence has suggested that a person-centred approach is beneficial not only for improving care outcomes but also for mitigating the pressure on public health systems. However, policy implementation gaps have prevented the translation of this complex framework into useful practical, ethical and moral stances for end-of-life care. This article aims to explore the meaning and implications of person-centredness in end-of-life care policy discourses.Methods: By perceiving policy documents as a medium embodied with socio-political and cultural norms, we analysed how person-centred approach in end-of-life care is constructed within specific socio-cultural contexts and the implications of these contexts on resultant care. Focusing on England and Japan, we conducted a critical policy analysis to examine and compare key policy and legal documents collected between 2007 and 2019 in these two post-industrial and socio-culturally distinctive countries. Results: Our analysis found that the person-centred approach is mobilised in policy discourses primarily through three interconnected dimensions: individual, relational and existential. While acknowledging that both countries have developed varied policy and legal mechanisms to emphasise holistic and integrated care with respect to these three dimensions, we also identified significant gaps in the policies both within and between England and Japan. They include ambiguity in defining patients’ best interests, fragmented support for social and family care and the neglect of existential needs. Conclusions: This cross-cultural analysis has revealed the complex nature of discourses around person-centred approach in English and Japanese end-of-life care policies, which often concentrate on the multifaceted aspects of experiences as one approaches the end of life. Despite this, we argue that a more holistic construction of person-centred approach is needed in end-of-life care policies not only in England and Japan but also more broadly, to encapsulate the richness of end-of-life experiences.

scholarly journals Challenges and Progress in Ensuring the Right to Be Heard and the Best Interests of Children Seeking International Protection

Refuge ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Jyothi Kanics
Keyword(s):  
Best Interests ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Legislative Reform ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Durable Solutions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Policies And Practices

Societal attitudes towards children significantly limit the extent to which they are able to realize their rights and can contribute to discrimination against children. Fortunately, legislative reform as well as changes in policies and practices are slowly leading to progress for children, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Child-sensitive procedures for children seeking international protection are being developed and implemented. It is crucial that these systems be strengthened so that durable solutions for children and families are secured without discrimination and in line with the best interests of the children concerned.

Methodology for the assessment of the best interests of the child for recently arrived unaccompanied refugee minors

2017 ◽  
pp. 59-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla van Os ◽  
Elianne Zijlstra ◽  
Erik J. Knorth ◽  
Wendy Post ◽  
Margrite Kalverboer
Keyword(s):  
Best Interests ◽  
Unaccompanied Refugee Minors ◽  
Refugee Minors

Spiritual Healing, Sick Kids and the Law: Inequities in the American Healthcare System

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-299
Author(s):  
Janna C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Need ◽  
East End ◽  
The Church

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

Coming Of Age In A Profession

1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Jon Eisenson
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age

EFPSA - An Organization Coming of Age

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Bregar
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age

Coming of Age

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 888-889
Author(s):  
Lisa C. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age

Living It Up: Coming of Age With Computers

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-297
Author(s):  
Steven Jones
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age
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