Definition(s)
A child under 18 years of age who is outside their country of origin and separated from both parents or their previous legal / customary primary caregiver.
Source(s)
- Art. 8 of UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No 6 (2005)
- Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA): Study on separated, asylum seeking children in EU Member States, 2010
Translations
- BG: отделено дете
- CS: odloučené dítě
- DE: alleinstehendes Kind
- EL: παιδί χωρισμένο από την οικογένειά του
- EN: separated child
- ES: menor separado
- ET: vanematest eraldatud laps
- FI: huoltajasta erilleen joutunut lapsi
- FR: enfant séparé
- GA: páiste dealaithe
- HR: dijete odvojeno od roditelja
- HU: kísérőjétől elválasztott gyermek
- IT: minore separato
- LT: atskirtas nuo tėvų vaikas
- LV: bez vecāku vai aizbildņu gādības palicis bērns
- MT: tifel mifrud
- NL: alleenstaand kind
- PL: małoletni bez opieki
- PT: criança separada
- RO: copil separat
- SK: odlúčené dieťa
- SL: otrok, ločen od staršev ali skrbnikov
- SV: separerat barn
- NO: enslig barn (b); einsleg barn (n)
- KA: განცალკევებული ბავშვი
- UK: дитина, розлучена із сім'єю
- HY: ընտանիքից բաժանված երեխա
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Note(s)
A child may be totally alone while another may be living with extended family members. All such children are separated children and entitled to international protection under a broad range of international and regional instruments.