The Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors from the EU: Family Tracing and Government Accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) Project
Friday, 03 May 2013
Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
Contents
About the workshop
The European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) is an EU project to find new methods for the return of unaccompanied minors (UAMs), mainly from Afghanistan, who have received a final rejection of their asylum application.
This has raised a number of political, legal and moral concerns. These include the feasibility of family tracing and the safety of deported children in war-torn Afghanistan, the (in)compatibility of ERPUM’s goals with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the European jurisdiction relating to children deported from their territories. Furthermore, European states have been reluctant to disseminate information about the progress of ERPUM negotiations and the concrete practices the project is envisioned to involve.
This one-day workshop will convene academics and policymakers to discuss this urgent and critical issue.
Programme
| 10:30–11:00 | Registration and coffee/tea |
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11:00–11:15 |
Introduction |
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11:15–11:45 |
The evolution of the ERPUM project |
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11:45–12:30 |
Afghan perspectives on ERPUM |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch |
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13:30–14:15 |
ERPUM and the Convention on the Rights of the Child |
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14:15–15:00 |
Ethical reflections on ERPUM |
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15:00–16:00 |
Coffee/tea |
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16:00–17:00 |
Panel discussion |
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17:00– 17:30 |
Summary and closing session |