Since the 2015 European “refugee crisis”, governments across Europe have made several policy changes to make migration increasingly restrictive. In this situation, it is necessary to oversee the rights of children and youth who migrate to seek protection in Sweden and other European countries. In the first part of this chapter, we present a research review of the relatively scarce but expanding literature on children’s lived experiences of an increasingly restrictive Swedish asylum reception. In the second part of the chapter, we explore what the shrinking space of asylum can imply for an ethical researcher who aims to promote equal rights for children on the move. This review reveals the highly unequal childhoods experienced by children in Sweden and a few ways in which restrictive refugee policies are becoming apparent in children’s and young people’s lives. We argue that researchers in the field need to adopt active stances to ensure that children’s voices are heard and considered in decisions and policies that affect their lives (This chapter is based on the thesis entitled “Att forska om och för Sveriges osörjbara barn: En forskningsöversikt om barns och ungas erfarenheter i strävan mot asyl i ett restriktivare Sverige” by Kitty Lossius (2023), University West, Sweden. See: https://www.diva-portal.org/ . [Researching Sweden’s ungrievable children: A research review of children’s and young people’s experiences in the quest for asylum in a more restrictive Sweden]. Kerstin von Brömssen acted as supervisor as well as translated and adapted certain portions of the thesis into English.).