The World from PRX

unaccompanied minors

A school campus with small blue buildings
Global Nation Education
Newcomer students face daunting obstacles to graduate. This California high school makes it possible.
A teacher speaks in front of the classroom.
In this California classroom, students teach each other their home languages — and learn acceptance
Yusra, played by Rhianna Merralls, struggles to fall asleep in the play, "Wherever I Lay My Head," performed in London City Hall.
Chronic insomnia plagues young migrants long after they reach their destination
Young boy entering building from sidewalk
Immigration
‘They didn’t explore the world,’ says physician who cared for toddlers separated from their parents at the border
Immigrants sit in a cell for incoming ICE detainees at the Adelanto immigration detention center in Adelanto, California, April 13, 2017.
Immigration
ICE isn’t following its own handbook on how to deport kids
Homeless migrant teenagers meet twice a week in this public park in northern Paris for a hot meal brought by volunteers.
Justice
Unaccompanied minors in Paris face X-ray tests and other Kafkaesque hurdles to proving their age
Monica Ruiz and her foster son Bartolo
Global Politics
It took a health emergency for this Guatemalan boy, who crossed the border alone, to see a US judge
A train in a green field with someone standing on the top of a car
Conflict
Advocates suggest another option for US-bound Central Americans: Stay and work in Mexico
Unaccompanied Minors
Education
Getting an education is the latest battle for migrant children who crossed US border alone last summer