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Euro-orphan or EU orphan is a
neologism In linguistics, a neologism (; also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language. Most definitively, a word can be considered ...
used metaphorically to describe a "
social orphan A social orphan is a child with no adults looking after them, even though one or more parents are still alive. Usually the parents are alcoholics, drug abusers, or simply not interested in the child. It is therefore not the same as an orphan, who ...
" in the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
whose parents have migrated to another member state, typically for economic reasons. The child is left behind, often in the care of older relatives. The expression itself is a misnomer since it is meant to describe temporary
child abandonment A child () is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of ''chi ...
rather than the death of both parents. A similar name is White Orphans. Such abandoned children may require therapeutic or psychiatric care to cope. The EU supports family reunification. Migrating families are sometimes divided by local child services like
Jugendamt ( German: Youth office) is a German and Austrian local agency set up to promote the welfare of children. Each district () or district-free city () has its own . Its structure is flat, with no centralised (state or federal) coordinating office. I ...
. The number of Euro-orphans in the EU is estimated to be between 0.5–1 million, most of whom live outside the EU, e.g. in
Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
. A similar term, "old euro-orphans", describes elderly parents left behind by migrants.


Media

*"Euroorphans – the children left behind" - documentary by Sven Bergman *"I am Kuba" - documentary by
Åse Svenheim Drivenes Åse Svenheim Drivenes (born 3 January 1977) is a Norwegian documentary film director. Life and career Drivenes is from Tromsø. She worked on assignment for Médecins sans frontières in 2008 at Mount Elgon in Kenya, documenting local people' ...


Books

*Anne White, Polish Families and Migration Since EU Accession, 2017


See also

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Abandoned child syndrome Abandoned child syndrome is a proposed behavioral or psychological condition that is said to result from the loss of one or both parents. Abandonment may be physical or emotional; that is, the parent may abandon the child by failing to be present ...
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Child displacement Child displacement is the complete removal or separation of children from their parents and immediate family or settings in which they have initially been reared. Displaced children includes varying categories of children who experience separation ...
* Dead mother complex *
Maternal deprivation Maternal deprivation is a scientific term summarising the early work of psychiatry, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mother (or primary caregiver). Although the effect of ...
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Migrations from Poland since EU accession Since Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004, migration to and from the country has been in flux. Following accession to the Schengen Area in particular, a significant number of Poles, estimated at over two million, have emigrated, prima ...
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Parental alienation Parental alienation is a theorized process through which a child becomes estranged from one parent as the result of the psychological manipulation of another parent. The child's estrangement may manifest itself as fear, disrespect or hostility tow ...
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Separation anxiety Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is an anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home and/or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment (e.g., a parent, caregive ...
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Social orphan A social orphan is a child with no adults looking after them, even though one or more parents are still alive. Usually the parents are alcoholics, drug abusers, or simply not interested in the child. It is therefore not the same as an orphan, who ...
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Transnational child protection Transnational child protection refers to the protection of children from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect in an international setting. When a non-national child comes into contact with public authorities and service providers, a series of ...
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Unaccompanied minor An unaccompanied minor (sometimes "unaccompanied child" or "separated child") is a child without the presence of a legal guardian. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child defines unaccompanied minors and unaccompanied children as those "who ...
* List of European Union member states by average wage *
Left-behind children in China In China, "left-behind children" ( zh, c=, p=liúshǒu'értóng, s=留守儿童, t=留守兒童), also called "stay-at-home children", are children who remain in rural regions of the country while their parents leave to work in urban areas. In m ...


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As Poland loses its doctors and builders, ‘Euro-orphans’ are left at home to sufferThe plight of Europe's 'euro orphans'
* ttp://elib.bsu.by/bitstream/123456789/17452/1/p_55-56.pdf Deformed family communication in case of euro-orphan families (Latvia) Child abandonment Child development Child welfare Childhood in Europe Internal migrations in Europe European Union society Living arrangements Metaphors Neologisms Parenting Social issues in Europe {{socio-stub