Recent years have seen increasing attention being paid to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. This article provides an overview of research in the field and its implications for an understanding of these children as a particularly vulnerable category. The existing research focuses primarily on investigating the children's emotional well-being from psychiatric and medical perspectives. M oreover, in these studies such emotional problems tend to be linked to previous and current traumatic experiences, in particular separation from their parents. By contrast, this article suggests that a critical need exists for research on unaccompanied children's life situations based upon exploration of their own perspectives.
This article investigates children’s participation and sense of belonging from the perspective of unaccompanied children, based on two qualitative research projects with unaccompanied children in Sweden and Finland. The results show that the unaccompanied children’s own understanding of their participation and belonging in different positions was fluid; for instance, the borders between childhood and adulthood, and striving for independence or wanting to be cared for by adults were flexible, allowing the children’s movement within and between the categories.
This paper offers some behind-the-scenes insights drawn from the collective fieldwork experiences of the contributors to this Special Issue. These include reflections on: how decisions about modes of accessing research participants fundamentally shape the research process and outcomes; the pitfalls of only focusing on young people's migratory experiences while ignoring the multiple other dimensions to their lives; how we can best capture and represent young people's often paradoxical vulnerability and agency; the relative merits of methodological innovations increasingly integrated into work with marginalised and hard to reach communities; and, finally, our own positionality when conducting research with migrant young people and the importance of taking account of how our own subjective, political, philosophical and ethical standpoints influence our interactions throughout our research endeavours. These contributions seek to promote greater reflexivity and transparency among academics conducting ethnographically driven research with young people in the context of forced migration.
Den här boken handlar om villkor för tjejers delaktighet och inkludering, i samhället och i idrotten. I boken följer vi en verksamhet som vi kallar Bollen, som är särskilt riktad till unga tjejer i den urbana periferin. Bollens övergripande ambition är att – genom fotboll utomhus och inomhus, så kallad futsal – skapa möjlighet för unga tjejer att delta i idrottsaktiviteter med ambitionen att tjejers deltagande i idrott i sin tur ska bidra till inkludering och jämställdhet. I boken undersöker vi hur verksamheten tar form i ett sammanhang präglat av tilltagande social och ekonomisk ojämlikhet, där det bedrivs ett arbete för att på olika vis motverka dessa ojämlikheter, i en bredare strävan efter social förändring. Boken är ett viktigt bidrag i den pågående diskussionen om hur idrotten kan vara ett svar på samhällets utmaningar, såsom tilltagande sociala klyftor och ekonomisk ojämlikhet. Och på vilket sätt idrotten kan möjliggöra deltagande och inkludering.
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