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Radio 4,5 mins

'We used google translate for a few weeks'

Woman's Hour

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The Prime Minister has called for Britain and France to work together to stop the migrant boats crossings the Channel to Dover. Over the past few days around 700 people have made the journey. The latest Home Office statistics say 90 percent of unaccompanied refugees under the age of 18 every year are male. So what happens to the 10 per cent who are female? Sharon Pearson is a foster parent. She has fostered Elsa Sesay, a refugee who came from Eritrea. Dinah Beckett is the project director of Migration Yorkshire.

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