In the Children's Best Interests

Lynne Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo.

• AcknowledgementsGlossaryIntroduction1. UNRRA Gets Starteda/ Initial Planningb/ UNRRA’s Marginalizationc/ UNRRA’s Mobilization2. Unaccompanied Childrena/ Temporary Care Programsb/ Child Search - Trial3. Child Search Launcheda/ Child Search - Germanization discoveredb/ Child Search - Commitment4. Legal Complicationsa/ Mascotsb/ Illegitimacy and abandonmentc/ Age of majorityd/ Adoptione/ Guardianship5. The Infiltreesa/ The Contextb/ Infiltree Children6. Obstacle: Jugendamta/The Landesjugendamt and the vexacious matter of ‘removal’7. Obstacle: The ACA Directive8. Child Search under the IROa/ Child Search Reprievedb/ Limited Registration Planc/ The Evolving Debate: Legal Security9. The Residuala/ Resettlementb/ Children’s Courtsc/ Transfer into the German economyd/ Closure of the IRO10. Nationalitya/ The Jewish Displaced Personsb/ The Baltic Displaced Personsc/ The Yugoslavian Displaced Personsd/ The Polish Displaced Personse/ The Ukrainian Displaced Personsf/ The Stateless and the Doubtful or Undeterminedg/ Observations11. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Taylor is able to build upon the considerable existing literature on refugees and the American Occupation of Germany. However, her study is most welcome since child refugees are understudied in both…Taylor also breaks important new ground by describing the child search activities in Germany of UNRAA and the IRO, and her well chosen case studies are among the most interesting and gripping parts of her book."- Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College (European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018) "This is less a history of unaccompanied children and more so an investigation of the shifting ground of child welfare policies. In ten fine-grained chapters, readers follow the relief efforts of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and International Refugee Organization in the immediate postwar period, when various national governments laid claim to displaced children and youth."- Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University (The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 12 no 2, Spring 2019)