(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #236 - Unaccompanied foreign minors: Youth like the others? (en, pt)

Minors are left-isolated, single-es and their country to arrive in France without family 
or resource. Today, in France, departments and state return the responsibility for their 
care, explicitly regarded as a financial burden that nobody wants to take. But these young 
people are mobilizing. ---- Few people know the fate that is reserved for minors isolated 
es foreigners (PII) by the departments legally obligated to protect those few thousands of 
children at risk. A national protocol was signed in May 2013, supposed divide young 
newcomers in different departments: it would take over all minors while respecting the 
unequal Home general advice capabilities. It is, however, discriminatory laws, since 
foreign minors are explicitly addressed the French minors (which themselves are supported 
in the department where they are not tossed at the option availability) differently.

Above all, the abuse in the application of this regulation are numerous: there are several 
hundreds of miners who are left on the street, summer and winter, with dubious arguments 
(they are not really minor, not really isolated, not really In danger ... wonder why they 
migrated only at the peril of their lives.) And even when they are supported, it is a 
support at least, without access to training, or even sometimes to social protection or 
care ... All this is a fine example of xenophobia policies (from left or right). This 
demonstrates the political manager of social action: talking numbers, flow, loads ... and 
not quality of support.

Collective support is organized to deal with this situation. The first to Paris, born in 
2012 at the initiative of fifteen associations, created a permanent home, to better 
understand and denounce the abuse that engage the services of social assistance to the 
Children (ASE) of Paris. He inspired a second class in the Hauts-de-Seine, and before the 
news on the entire territory, others grow in many departments.

Come on kids!

Especially, young people take action! After participating in a rally organized by the 
first collective MIE in June 2013 before the ASE Paris, major and minor youth are 
organized es in recent weeks to protest against what social services do to them, starting 
with making the street late December several of their comrades DMA Stendhal. With the 
support of the group, they resist the pressures of social services and demand respect for 
their rights. They were tens December 23 to demand to meet the Director of ESA in charge 
of MIE, to express their incomprehension and concern for their future. Immediate response: 
ESA calls the police to repress with a lot of tear gas, triggered internally threats and 
psychological pressure, and installs security guards at the entrance of the premises.

Social services have shown their inability to fulfill their mission and their submission 
to the xenophobic policy departments. As we now support any struggle by the youth for 
their rights and equal treatment.

Clemence (AL Paris North East)