Talk:Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the United Kingdom

Additional contribution - article review thoughts
This topic is an interesting and important one so I’m glad that you made this article. Overall, this article is well organized with information presented in a neutral way. I appreciate how you begin the article by starting out with the different definitions of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. I think that they are important to include, but I just wonder if there is a different way of presenting the information instead of in separate subsections like putting the definitions into a table or something so you can see the differences and similarities of definitions more clearly. I also think adding a table to the “Agencies working with UASC in the UK” to summarize the different agencies would be another helpful visual in the article. This is more of a formatting suggestion, but in the statistics section I think the table should match the format of the female/male table in the section below. In the “Asylum process for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children” section you touch on some of the difficulties faced by asylum-seeking children; however, you may want to consider making a separate section discussing some of the difficulties with the process due to definitions and the various barriers. Lastly, in the article you also have a table that shows the gender disparity in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and I was wondering if there was any literature on possible explanations and theories for this disparity that you could add. I think that going further into the gendered aspect of these issue through the possible causes and theories would help strengthen the article. Mmcolson (talk) 05:37, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Additional contribution feedback
I agree that this is a really important topic and definitely deserving of an article. This article provides a good overview of the topic and is well-researched. One change I would make is to explain the different asylum process outcomes in greater detail. Due to the nature of the topic, the article makes use of a lot of legal jargon. I think that this addition would help readers better understand the complexities of this topic. I also agree with Mmcolson that it would be interesting if you talked a bit more about the difficulties faced by asylum-seeking children in even reaching the UK. I'm not sure how feasible this is due to the wide variety of places where these children come from, but even a case study or two might be interesting to add. Finally, I think it would strengthen your article if you added a bit about the specific challenges faced by "end of line/appeal rights exhausted" group. Since they no longer have the legal right to remain in the UK, I imagine that this would create barriers to finding employment and gaining access to other social services. I'm not sure how much research is out there that discusses this group, but it would be a helpful addition if you can find any information on this topic. Overall, great job! Naomi FK (talk) 03:54, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Response to feedback
Thanks to both of you for your feedback! Mmcolson, your idea about clarifying tables is great and something that I will definitely put into practice moving forward. Especially with the agencies, I agree that a table could be extremely useful in clarifying the different services provided by all of these agencies. Unfortunately I have not been able to find literature on explanations for the gender disparity in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. I think that a lot of that is probably due to privacy rights protection--since these are minors, there isn't a huge amount of research dealing with their individual situations. That problem also comes into play with Naomi FK's suggestions--while I agree that more specific information on the difficulties that children face would be ideal, researchers seem to be more comfortable aggregating the experiences that they have heard about, possibly so that they feel less as though they are invading the privacy of minors. I do really appreciate your feedback on the end of line/appeal rights exhausted group. That is definitely an area where I have more research than is currently present in the article (I was a little concerned about relevance), so I can expand on that in advance of my final edits.

Thanks to both of you for your extremely helpful feedback! I look forward to incorporating your suggestions as I move forward. Allisonraven (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Gender disparity
There's no reason stated regarding why the large majority of them are male. Jim Michael (talk) 16:52, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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