8. 根据儿童权利委员会和美洲人权法院的定义，无人陪伴移民儿童是指与父母和其他亲属分离的儿童，身边没有按法律或习惯需要照顾他们的成年人的照顾。本研究所指的无人陪伴儿童是在国籍国之外，如果是无国籍人，是在惯常居所国之外的儿童。
8. According to the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, unaccompanied migrant children are children who have been separated from both parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible for doing so. The study covers unaccompanied children who find themselves outside their country of nationality or, if stateless, outside their country of habitual residence.