Adapting care provision and advocating for unprotected unaccompanied minors in Paris in the context of COVID-19
type: Article
item type: journalArticle
is part of: Global Health Promotion
authors: Person
  surname: Gautier
  given name: Lara
authors: Person
  surname: Poveda
  given name: Juan-Diego
authors: Person
  surname: Nguengang Wakap
  given name: Stéphanie
authors: Person
  surname: Bouchon
  given name: Magali
authors: Person
  surname: Quesnel-Vallée
  given name: Amélie
abstract: Unaccompanied minors (UMs) are children under 18 who arrive on the territory of a foreign country without the care of a guardian. In many countries their access to social and health care services depends on their legal recognition as minors. For instance, in France, high rejection rates of minor status place unprotected UMs in social precarity, such that in Paris, civil society organizations (CSOs) have stepped in to offer social, medical, and psychological care to unprotected UMs. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic however, CSOs had to adapt their care provision. We review promising CSO-led initiatives to ensure continuity of care for this population. In doing so, we highlight how, by promoting UMs’ healthy behaviors in the context of the pandemic, continued social interactions between CSO members and unprotected UMs may have contributed to disease prevention among UMs. In addition, CSOs have continued to advocate for sheltering unprotected UMs, calling on public authorities to take action.
date: 2021-01-13
pages: 175797592098419
citation key: gautierAdaptingCareProvision2021
date submitted: 2021-03-17 14:58:50
language: en
library catalog: DOI.org (Crossref)
description: WOS:000610290500001

Global Health Promotion
type: Journal
alternative: Glob Health Promot
identifier: DOI 10.1177/1757975920984193
identifier: ISSN 1757-9759, 1757-9767