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Across the threshold: Negotiations of deservingness among unaccompanied young refugees in Sweden
Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1035-0544
2021 (English)In: Children of the Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Unaccompanied Refugee Youth In and en Route to Europe / [ed] Annika Lems; Kathrin Oester; Sabine Strasser, Abingdon: Routledge, 2021, 1Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In the aftermath of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015, unaccompanied minors have been depicted as potential threats and challenges to receiving countries in the Swedish public debate. Through narratives of unaccompanied youngsters from 2011 to 2012, this article will illustrate that these youngsters were already struggling with the ambiguous refugee figures of the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ prior to the events of 2015. By studying their narratives, I analyse how deservingness comes into play in how they constitute themselves as subjects. In their narratives, they describe themselves as responsible, hard-working youngsters in relation to education and future working life. Moreover, their narratives also illustrate how descriptions of diligence and agency are used in order to oppose the discourse figures of unaccompanied minors as threats or victims. I conclude by suggesting that these narratives can be seen as manifestations of conditional belonging centred on deservingness, which the youngsters negotiate also after they have been granted protection.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2021, 1.
Series
Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
Keywords [en]
Unaccompanied youth, narratives, positioning, deservingness, diligence
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-180924ISBN: 9781032072524 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-180924DiVA, id: diva2:1609532
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Bidraget har även publicerats som artikel i tidskriften Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1584701

Available from: 2021-11-08 Created: 2021-11-08 Last updated: 2021-11-08

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