RAN Issue paper: Child returnees from conflict zones

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dc.contributor.authorLambert, Sharon
dc.contributor.authorLynch, Orla
dc.contributor.editorRadicalisation Awareness Network, European Commission
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen
dc.contributor.funderDirectorate-General for Migration and Home Affairsen
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-11T16:29:10Z
dc.date.available2019-02-11T16:29:10Z
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.date.updated2019-02-11T16:16:00Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper looks at ways to respond – from a practitioner's perspective - to the situation of children returning to Europe having either been born or travelled to Daesh held territories in Syria/Iraq as well as non-European children travelling from Daesh territory to Europe as a result of forced displacement. Estimating the number of children who have travelled from Europe to Iraq and Syria is difficult; estimates for individual countries vary from 24 to 70. Another unknown is the actual number of children born (or yet to be born) in Syria or Iraq to European parents. According to reports from the UN Security Council, these children are being used by Daesh to carry weapons, guard strategic locations, arrest civilians and serve as suicide bombers. Furthermore, children are particularly vulnerable to indoctrination, turning them into loyal supporters for terrorist organisations. These children suffer, both due to the violence they witness/participate in, but also due to the fact that their normal social, moral, emotional and cognitive development is interrupted and corrupted by the experience of war. In addition, in the aftermath of the conflict these children are at risk of exposure to additional trauma due to the experience of (forced) migration and the resettlement process. Exposure to multiple and repeated traumas represents a significant risk to children’s development and overall functioning and increases the risk of physical and mental disorders in the future. The paper gives an overview of the challenges that prevention practitioners and social services face in terms of dealing with childhood trauma, understanding involvement in violence by child returnees, lessons from other arenas, risk and resilient factors, identifying and working with children at risk, the role of the family and the contagion effect.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationLynch, O. and Lambert, S. (2016) RAN Issue paper: Child returnees from conflict zones, Brussels: Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Centre of Excellence, EU. Available online: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/networks/radicalisation_awareness_network/ran-papers_enen
dc.identifier.endpage23en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7477
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRadicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Centre of Excellence, EUen
dc.relation.ispartofEU.High Level Commissioners Conference
dc.relation.urihttp://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/networks/radicalisation_awareness_network/ran-papers/index_en.htm
dc.rights© 2018 the authors; RAN Centre of Excellenceen
dc.subjectTraumaen
dc.subjectInformed careen
dc.subjectTrauma and developmenten
dc.subjectDaeshen
dc.subjectSyriaen
dc.subjectIraqen
dc.subjectChild soldiersen
dc.subjectChild returneesen
dc.titleRAN Issue paper: Child returnees from conflict zonesen
dc.typeConference itemen
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