The medical care and the social care of newly arrived foreign migrant children can both be challenging. One of the recent migratory phenomena in Europe since the 1990s, which has grown over the past decade, is the arrival of "unaccompanied foreign minors" (UFM) who come without their parents in France. Ile-De-France area and the departments of Paris (75) and Seine-Saint-Denis (93) are the most concerned by these migratory flows. A specific national scheme was introduced in 2013 to shelter, assess and guide unaccompanied foreign minors. These are part of a specific legal process (temporary placement order by the public prosecutor) and social protection under the Social Childhood Assistance (ESA) whose mission is to put in place administrative, social and medical protection measures. The main pathologies encountered in these newly arrived children are infectious diseases (latent primary tuberculous infection, tuberculosis-disease, schistosomiasis, digestive parasitosis, hepatitis B). Many unaccompanied minors, from sub-Saharan Africa, experienced a traumatic journey through Libya (torture, physical abuse) and while crossing the Mediterranean (witnessing numerous drownings). Some of them have post-traumatic stress disorder upon arrival. A multi-disciplinary medical, psychological and social care, part of a coordinated care path, is necessary and represents a definite public health issue. © 2019 John Libbey Eurotext.

Unaccompanied foreign minor Post-traumatic stress disorder Infectious diseases

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