Start and finish time of webinar
3-4pm CET

Since the beginning of the so called "migrant and refugee crisis", many European countries have been facing difficulties while trying to cope with the crisis and effectively respond to the needs of the most vulnerable groups affected. Two years ago, ChildHub organized a webinar on the experience of Germany, as one of the top destination countries. Click here to listen to the whole webinar and learn about the German system and some of the challenges they had been experiencing.

Two years after, ChildHub gathered a pool of relevant experts from both destination and a transit country, aiming to revisit this topic and shed a light on how the process of accepting and integrating one of the most vulnerable groups - unaccompanied minors - has been functioning and evolving. Speakers from Sweden and Serbia will share their experience, discuss how systems in their countries function, share some of the good practices identified in the process as well as challenges still to be addressed.

The European Migration Network is currently producing a study on unaccompanied minors following status determination. Mr Jonas Hols from the Swedish Migration Agency will draw on the national Swedish contribution to that study and in particular focus on the situation in Sweden after 2015, when 35,000 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum. He will discuss recent changes to policy and practice, reception (care / accommodation arrangements) conditions, integration of unaccompanied minors and unaccompanied minors who disappear, as well as some of the challenges and good practices identified in the study.

Ms Anja Stefanović and Mr Bogdan Krasić from Belgrade Center for Human Rights will focus on the position of unaccompanied and separated refugee children in the Republic of Serbia, the challenges that Serbian system faces regarding additional protection that unaccompanied children should be able to enjoy and gaps within it.

The webinar will be of interest for both practitioners in public and civil sector who deal with unaccompanied minors, professionals who work with children on the move, as well as academics who are interested in migration, influence of the situation in the Western Balkan route on the flow of migrants towards Western Europe and comparative analyses of refugee policies.

 

About the presenters:

Jonas Hols joined the national contact point of the EMN (European Migration Network) in 2015. The EMN is a EU network of migration and asylum experts set up to provide objective, comparable, policy-relevant and up-to-date information on asylum and migration, for example by producing reports and studies and organising conferences. He has previously worked in various capacities at the Swedish Migration Agency, primarily in asylum/protection, and served in Russia for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Hols holds a Master’s in Political Science.

Anja Stefanović and Bogdan Krasić have worked as the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) researchers for the past 3 years, mostly focusing on refugee rights. They have implemented projects in partnership with the UNHCR, International Rescue Committee, Dutch Refugee Council and Oxfam. Ms Stefanović previously gained experience in UN agencies in Serbia and Jordan. Mr Krasić was involved in activities that focused on refugee children and was the editor of the report "Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Serbia" that was published in 2017. Currently they are focused on challenges of integration of recognized refugees in Serbia.

 

How to attend the webinar:

Use the button below to sign up for the webinar. A few hours before the webinar you will receive an email with the link to the webinar room and instructions how to join. Joining our webinars is very easy, doesn't require any special skills from you and only takes a minute or two. You can join the webinar from your computer, tablet or mobile phone.

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https://childhub.org/sites/default/files/webinars/jonas_hols_childhub_webinar.pdf

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