| "The presentation will explore the issue of the detention of migrants in the European Union (EU)
through the lenses of age and gender. Vulnerable
populations, such as children, who encumber on the migration routes, are often at
higher risk of marginalization and human rights violations. While there is a
robust EU legal regime to provide unaccompanied
minors, who face detention, with multiple levels of protection, there is a difference in the implementation of legal
principles across the EU member-states. The presentation examines some possible
explanations of this variation such as public opinion, geographic and political
specificities within individual member states. The types of persecution and
challenges that children face on the migration journeys are also gendered in nature. The
presentation discusses some similarities and
differences experiences that boys and girls face through their migration
journeys. I conclude with a consideration of possible policy recommendation on the treatment of unaccompanied minors in detention."1
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