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Child Migration Research Network

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This resource is the website of the Child Migration Research Network (CMRN), which was established to help assess the impact of migration on children and youth. The aim of the CMRN is to bring together researchers who look at how migration affects children and to highlight research work, especially that in grey literature or other hard-to-reach sources, that focuses on this area. The CMRN is run by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

The CMRN's work currently focuses on further investigation of girls' migration in developing countries, with research findings intended to inform migration and social protection policy recommendations. Past work has included research on the independent migration of children and youth, bringing together researchers and practitioners working with children affected by migration.

The principal themes of the CMRN are:

  • Independent Child Migration;
  • Children Left Behind; and
  • Migration with Families


Each resource is categorised by main themes, sub themes, tertiary themes, and key words. The "What's new" page shows the latest resources to be added to the database, whether a document, event, or researcher's details. This website also includes access to research on the following migration themes:

  • Internal
  • South-North
  • South-South
  • Asylum -Refugees
  • Economic
  • Forced Migration
  • Fostering
  • Reunification
  • Rural-Rural
  • Rural-Urban
  • Urban-Rural
  • Urban-Urban

A search function on the site provides summaries of and links to downloads of documents such as "Assessment on the Situation of Iraqi Refugees in Syria", which shows that (at the time of this report) there are as many as 30% of Iraqi children between the age of 6 and 11 are not enrolled in schools - mostly due to poverty and insecure legal status. The report also provides evidence from focus group discussions and discussions with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that these refugee children are increasingly getting involved in the informal labour market.

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The Child Migration Research Network website, February 20 2013 and September 10 2015.