The Minor Immigrant and the Effects of Juvenile Migration in Europe

• Author: Andy Pusca
• Position: Associate Professor, PhD, Rector of the 'Danubius' University of Galati, Romania
• Pages: 5-16

JURIDICA

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Private Law

The Minor Immigrant and the Effects of

Juvenile Migration in Europe

Andy PUŞCĂ

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Abstract: In the civil law and the international law, th e minor immigrants are the new protagonists of

migratory processes and constitute a fundamental subject. During the last decade, the presence of

minors in the most important migration phenomenon has u nited migrations worldwide and the

numbers increased significantly. There is no universal definition of the minor immigrant. This paper

aims to describe the concept of minor immigrant, the effects of juvenile migration on the EU Member

States and the measures to be taken in order to prevent the negative aspects and to reduce the human

costs of migration processes. The method applied is the creation of placement and protection models

able to comply with the obligations imposed by international conventions, model that is far from

being considered adequate, since the convictions of the European Court of Human Rights prove the

lack of practice in the field.

Keywords: immigration; juvenile; Europe

1. Introduction

The movement of population, in its diverse forms and with its different results, has

always led to the formation of stable societies, whether this movement of persons

was performed individually or in a group, commercial exchanges, peaceful

colonisations and bloody invasions that contributed to the creation of the history of

human civilization. Nowadays, migrations are one of the most visible and

controversial factors of change in our societies, as, indeed, during the past decades,

movement beyond borders has increased and diversified. New states have joined

the map of departure and arrival places, others have become transit areas. Different

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Associate Professor, PhD, Rector of th e “Danubius” University of Galati, Romania. Address: 3

Galati Boulevard, 800654 Galati, Romania. Tel.: +40.372.361.102, fax: +40.372.361.290.

Corresponding author: andypusca@univ-danubius.ro.

AUDJ, vol. 11, no. 3/2015, pp. 5-16