Migration is a well-known phenomenon to the Moldovan people. The decision to leave the country to work abroad is mostly associated with adults’ desire to meet their own needs related to house, family, health, upbringing and development of their children. Some care more about the welfare of their families. Others are looking for experience and professional development. The reasons people migrate are very different and it may be for a short and fixed period or for a long and indefinite one.

This decision is challenging and can be risky sometimes, involves costs and benefits, and change, and by making up their minds to leave to work abroad parents often jump into the unknown. In most cases, they could not or did not want their children to join them, because they intended to come back, leaving them with grandparents, close relatives or other people.

This brochure calls on all the child protection professionals to be responsive and act to safeguard and protect the children whose parents are going to leave or have already left to work abroad.

Understanding their needs and vulnerabilities associated with parents’ absence is a way to finding the best and most appropriate solutions for each and every child. The information below will help child protection professionals to get a better understanding of what is going on with the child left behind and act in the child’s best interests.

Only by joining efforts will they manage to safeguard and protect the children left behind.

The brochure contains the following topics:

  • Why monitor the situation of children left behind?
  • Truths and myths about children left behind
  • What are the major needs of children left behind?
  • What actions should professionals take before parents leave to work abroad?
  • What actions should professionals take after parents have left to work abroad?
  • Confidentiality of information about the child and the child’s family
  • Legislative references and other useful resources

"Families Without Borders: Children left behind? Parents gone abroad? Answers for professionals" brochure is published within the "Migration and Child Protection" Project, implemented by Terre des hommes Moldova, with the financial support of the Netherlands Embassy under the Human Rights Program.

For more details visit www.farahotare.md.

Author
Tatiana Turchina#uid:1881
Total pages
45
Countries this relates to
Language of materials

Childhub

You might like..

0
4931
The brochure "Families without Borders: 20 Questions and Answers about Children for the Parents Who Leave the Country" is specially designed for the parents who intend to leave or have already left the country to work abroad. On the other hand, it…
0
27
In this short video, the role of child protection professionals in protecting children whose parents work abroad or plan to work abroad is discussed. Why professionals need to monitor children left behind? What actions can professionals undertake…
0
108
This video addresses parents who are working abroad. It contains a number of recommendations to strengthen the relationship with their children left home. The recommendations may be also helpful in cases when parents and children are…
0
24
Whether in health, in education, or in material well-being, some children will always fall behind the average. The critical question is – how far behind? Is there a point beyond which falling behind is not inevitable but policy susceptible, not…
0
29
The BBC has posted a video on children "left behind" in Romania. According to the BBC, up to 350,000 children in Romania have one or both of their parents living and / or working abroad to make a living.  40% of these children live without…
0
115
Photographer Myriam Meloni went to Moldova to document children left behind. "In the Republic of Moldova, the poorest country in Eastern Europe, over 100,000 children are growing up without their parents, who work abroad. They are social orphans…
0
38
The Study provides data and information on the scale of the phenomenon (highlighting the most affected regions), the ‘profile’ of the family/community where children are more exposed to vulnerability, marginalization, and/or exclusion due to their…
0
50
In 2007, The Soros Foundation initiated a research program dealing with one of the most important and impactful effects of external labor migration, namely its impact on the children left behind. This paper is an attempt at an in-depth analysis of…
0
2
This is an independent review commissioned by Save the Children Sweden, of the “Social Inclusion of Children Left Behind by Migrating Parents” Project, implemented by the Child Rights Information Centre, Moldova. The evaluation is based on a desk…
yes
0
338
An international action will bring a new perspective on transnational families and how labour migration affects children's rights. The Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania coordinates 5 institutions and organizations that will collaborate in the next…
yes
0
9
In October academic partners and NGOs in an international project met in Lisbon  in order to discuss recommendations that would support transnational families accross EU (nn. families with at least one member migrating for work). Here are the…
yes
0
143
Children from dozens of Ukrainian families made friends with some of the youngest locals during the free event “Friendship Brings Joy”, organized by Terre des hommes Romania. “We found you on the invite list of the Friendship Brings Joy event!…
0
1
The study considers the reasons that some trafficking victims decline assistance and examines the circumstances under which they do so. The study found that victims decline assistance for a large variety of reasons, stemming from their personal…
0
27
This video is addressed to parents who intend to go abroad to work. It contains several recommendations for the protection of children who remain at home, such as the need to tell the child about the intention to go abroad well before…
yes
0
1225
The international conference ”Families without borders in Ukraine and Moldova. Preliminary conclusions of a unique research on transnational families” will take place on June 7th We invite you to virtually meet and listen to representatives of…