Over the past 20 years both Israel and Germany have become destination countries for unaccompanied minors (UM), albeit at different speeds and scales and in contrasting geopolitical settings. This article compares the reception and integration of UM in the two countries with a particular focus on their access to education and employment. The movement of UM over borders goes hand in hand with the drawing of legal, ideological, and conceptual boundaries within these two countries that discriminate between citizens and foreigners. However, the answers provided by the respective migration regimes could not be more different, even though both countries are signatories to the relevant international conventions on UM: while in Germany the primacy of child and youth welfare is applied, the Israeli authorities consider UM as illegal ‘infiltrators’ and a threat to national security and the Jewish State.

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逃亡儿童：以色列和德国对无人陪伴未成年人的接纳和融合

在过去的 20 年中，以色列和德国已成为无人陪伴未成年人 (UM) 的目的地国，尽管速度和规模不同，地缘政治环境也截然不同。本文比较了两国对 UM 的接受和融合，并特别关注他们接受教育和就业的机会。UM 跨越国界的运动与在这两个国家内划分公民和外国人的法律、意识形态和概念界限密切相关。然而，尽管两国都签署了有关 UM 的相关国际公约，但各自的移民制度提供的答案却大相径庭：而在德国，儿童和青年福利是首要的，