Chapter 14: Lost in Search of a Dream

This chapter aims to address the immigration phenomena and its consequences on children's rights. Here are detailed types of migration, the vulnerability, and fragility of the child without neglecting the need for child protection, based on the premise that their condition as infants makes them deserve special care and treatment. It also mentions the different circumstances that lead children to migrate and examines some existing policies. The text provides technical tools to diagnose the seriousness of the phenomenon of children migration in the world, acknowledging and highlighting the human aspect. When it comes to children, it is not enough to talk about numbers because each of those number has a name, it is a family, it is a world… it is Maria, Sofia, Tomas, Jose, and many more. Migrant children are one of the more vulnerable populations nowadays. Internationally, age functions as a range of power, and adults enjoy a position of authority over children and adolescents. Children's cognitive, physical, and emotional development determines their social interaction with society for the rest of their lives. Childhood is where the social history of nations is constructed. The hierarchies of power make migrant children susceptible to racism, use, and abuse.