Report

Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States

UNICEF Child Alert - Refugee and Migrant Crisis, August 2016
Author
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Publication Year
2016
Region
The Americas
Thematic Area
Families
Topic
Children / Migration / Protecting/Restoring Family Links
Access
Open access

Child Alert is a briefing series that presents the core challenges for children in a given crisis location at a given time. This issue focuses on refugee and migrant children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, looking at the reasons they leave home, the dangers they encounter along the journey, and the challenges they face in seeking refuge in the United States.