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Spain: unwelcome responsibilities: Spain's failure to protect the rights of unaccompanied migrant children in the Canary Islands Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE CHILDREN CHILDRENS RIGHTS CHILDREN AT RISK ASYLUM SEEKERS MIGRATION SAFETY OF REFUGEES SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL PROBLEMS UNACCOMPANIED MINORS REFUGEE STATUS DETERMINATION PROCEDURES HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DETENTION This report discusses the Canary Islands' response to the unprecedented arrival of some 900 unaccompanied children by boat from Africa in 2006. The Canary Islands authorities opened four emergency centers to provide care for several hundred children. Conceived as a temporary solution to deal with an exceptional situation that overloaded existing capacity, these emergency facilities have in effect become permanent—neither regional nor national authorities have any plans to close them. On the contrary, Canary Islands authorities plan an expansion of emergency center capacity, while national authorities maintain that the situation in the Canary Islands is not within their responsibility. 2026-09-30T11:44:48Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33353058.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Spain_unwelcome_responsibilities_Spain_s_failure_to_protect_the_rights_of_unaccompanied_migrant_children_in_the_Canary_Islands/33353058 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0