Table 1.

Definitions

Child	Person under the age of 18 years.7
Asylum seeker	Persons or children of such persons who are in the process of applying for refugee status under the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention.57
Refugee	A person, who ‘owing to well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinions, 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’.1
Undocumented children	Children who live without a residence permit, have overstayed visas or have refused immigration applications and who have not left the territory of the destination country subsequent to receipt of an expulsion order or children passing through or residing temporarily in a country without seeking asylum.57
Unaccompanied minors	Children who have been separated from both parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by any adult.1