Unaccompanied and Separated Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children Turning Eighteen: What to Celebrate?

The present study aims at collecting data and examples about practices in Council of Europe Member States concerning the situation of unaccompanied and separated asylum seeking children when they reach the age of majority, and more specifically how four States address the challenges faced by this category as a result of this critical change of legal regime. It focused in particular on the difficulties faced by young unaccompanied and separated asylum seekers in the asylum procedure and the reception system after losing the specific guarantees they enjoyed as Unaccompanied and Separated Children.