Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond

Evidence Based Report
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Contents
TITLE: “Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people
experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond”......................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
To what extent the research may inform policy or practice...................................................3
Methodological section related to research study..................................................................5
Discussion include implications.............................................................................................6
Limitations of research...........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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TITLE: “Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied
young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond”
INTRODUCTION
In context of public policy and professional debates, the research literature which is
analysed in this report is “Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied
young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond”. The main reason behind
choosing this topic is that it assists in exploring the protections and rights of accompanied young
people in United Kingdom. Apart from this, it helped in determining the way Afghan
unaccompanied young individuals experience becoming adult in United Kingdom and beyond.
This report covers critical analysis of policy and practice that assist in supporting unaccompanied
children and young people. This also discusses about the methodology which was used in the
study along with the implications and limitations of study. A brief summary is provided in the
end based on the entire report.
MAIN BODY
To what extent the research may inform policy or practice
This study is based on the topic “Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan
unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond”. The study
was conducted by Elaine Chase and it was published in year 2019. In the search of safety, an
unprecedented number of individuals came to Europe and the number of unaccompanied Asylum
seeking young people and children arriving increase from 12000 people a year to almost 90000
people. The young people and children from Afghanistan made up over half of unaccompanied
minors arriving at Europe. According to the study, most of the unaccompanied minors in United
Kingdom I am not given the status of refugee. The possibility of been granted the status of
refugee varies as per the origin country. The policy and media discourses in United Kingdom
continue to be emphasize on unaccompanied and through implication, vulnerable child in
protection need highly ignoring imminent transition to adulthood. The migrant young people in
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