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Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the United Kingdom, often abbreviated to UASC, are children who are outside their country of origin to seek asylum in the United Kingdom, are separated from parents and relatives, and are not in the care of someone who is responsible for doing so.〔UN Declaration on Rights of the Child. Comment 6, Section 7.〕 ==Definitions == Since unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are an international concern, there are several different definitions that apply to them within the UK. The United Nations defines unaccompanied children as “children, as defined in article 1 of the Convention, who have been separated from both parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible for doing so.”〔 The United Nations defines separated children, a closely related group, as “children, as defined in article 1 of the Convention, who have been separated from both parents, or from their previous legal or customary primary caregiver, but not necessarily from other relatives. These may, therefore, include children being accompanied by adult family members.”〔UN Declaration on Rights of the Child. Comment 6, Section 8.〕 The UK Home Office defines unaccompanied asylum-seeking child as "a person under 18, applying for asylum on his or her own right, who is separated from both parents and is not being cared for by an adult who by law has responsibility to do so."〔Home Office. "Asylum part 2: appeals, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, age disputes and dependents" August 30, 2012. Accessed 5 November 2012. http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/immigration-asylum-research/immigration-q2-2012/asylum2-q2-2012.〕 All asylum-seekers in the UK are seeking refugee status. The UK abides by the UN definition of a refugee when determining refugee status. The UN defines a refugee as a person who ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.〔UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951. Article 1.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the United Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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