Contestations of the Swedish Deportation Regime: Civil Mobilisation for and with Afghan Youth

Morell, Ildikó Asztalos

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“…This also connects to the dynamics between civil society and the state, rooted in diverse institutional styles and accountabilities, and to the question of to what degree civil society is or is not entangled with symbolic boundary drawings and how the state is coordinating such efforts (Arora‐Jonsson & Larsson, 2021). The securitisation of refugee policies in Sweden (Asztalos Morell, 2018) and globally (Asztalos Morell & Darvishpour, 2018) has formed hostile discourses differentiating between deserving ‘genuine’, ‘good refugees’ and undeserving ‘bogus’ refugees (Hetz, 2021), distinctions influencing every‐day perceptions. Such constructions of ‘otherness’ prompt the need to explore the importance of ‘everyday practice and lived experience of diversity’ for such boundary drawings (Wise & Velayutham, 2009, p. 3).…”

Section: Deterrents and Enablers Of Sustainable Resettlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The assemblage of different actors may modify or strengthen the state's intentions. Civil society engagement is a strong force that can open the local space of action (Asztalos Morell, 2018; Feischmidt et al., 2019) and form local civil resistance models for accommodating refugees, filling places left vacant by the state. However, critical research has raised doubts about how multilevel governance can take on board the interests of refugee (Arora‐Jonsson, 2017).…”

Section: Governance and The Settlement Of Unaccompanied Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Half of all asylum seekers who arrived in 2015 were children and half of all asylum‐seeking children (35,369) were unaccompanied (Barnombudsmannen, 2017). After the sharp turn in asylum regulations in November 2015 (Löfven & Romson, 2015), Swedish policies adjusted to the EU minimum standard, introducing increased suspicion directed at unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's self‐declared age in the asylum process, combined with a medicalisation of age determination and restrictions on family reunions (Asztalos Morell, 2018). Local responses in Sweden varied from pro‐refugee support for children facing deportation (Asztalos Morell, 2018), to anti‐refugee protests manifesting in burning down care homes for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (Horning et al., 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After the sharp turn in asylum regulations in November 2015 (Löfven & Romson, 2015), Swedish policies adjusted to the EU minimum standard, introducing increased suspicion directed at unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's self‐declared age in the asylum process, combined with a medicalisation of age determination and restrictions on family reunions (Asztalos Morell, 2018). Local responses in Sweden varied from pro‐refugee support for children facing deportation (Asztalos Morell, 2018), to anti‐refugee protests manifesting in burning down care homes for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (Horning et al., 2020). The approach to resettlement has been criticised for delegating important functions to civil society and doing so without necessarily involving them in decision‐making.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?

Morell

2023

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article explores the sustainability of the resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children from their perspective. Against the backdrop of a critical assessment of the multilevel governance of resettlement, it compares two rural municipalities. Unaccompanied refugee children in the municipality with a disempowering local governance model were hindered to engage with civil society, while in the municipality with an enabling model, their integration was enhanced. Achieving safety by legal residency does not by itself resolve the liminalities of belonging to unaccompanied refugee children. Beyond positive engagement by professionals, supporting encounters with civil society were found to enhance integration and belonging, while the lack of these strengthened marginalities. Unaccompanied refugee children resettlement is largely influenced by the benevolence of local actors when the state vacates its responsibility to co‐ordinate efforts. While civil society has an important role to play, a helping civil society cannot be assumed. Tensions rose also due to the collision between institutional styles. The marketisation of refugee reception at the national level led to loss of ability to plan schooling in rural municipalities, reinforcing practices of physical and symbolic segregation of children in the refugee context education. These accounts shed also light on the resilience of unaccompanied refugee children encountering local resettlement efforts emerging in the context of increasingly securitised asylum policies.

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Section: Deterrents and Enablers Of Sustainable Resettlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Governance and The Settlement Of Unaccompanied Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?

Morell

2023

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…It was found that to observe the meaning-making and practices of the networks between citizen humanitarians and migrants, the digital sphere had to be included. This is because previous studies on citizen humanitarianism have uncovered how digital spheres are important for pro-migrant supporters to convey their views and they have largely focused on open Facebook groups (Morell 2019;Saetrang 2016). Moreover, with technology and the internet becoming increasingly accessible, studies have shown that the internet not only reshapes the migration process itself but affects other actors in the process such as support networks and those who aim to control migration (Sandberg et al, 2022).…”

Section: Digital Network Of Migrants and Citizen Humanitariansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations

Rabe

2022

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Although digital ethnographic studies concerned with online misinformation have focused on analyzing the contents shared by “cloaked” profiles (concealed or fake identities), less attention has been given to the epistemological and ontological dilemmas that cloaked profiles pose to digital ethnography. This article deals with these issues by asking: how can digital ethnographers determine who and what we are observing? And how can we conduct online observations when confronted with cloaked profiles? Drawing on field research, this article argues that researchers would benefit from including more critical reflections on the presence of cloaked profiles and learning how to apply digital skills for how to unveil cloaked profiles. Such practices will challenge a commonly accepted ontology that online profiles represent human behavior and enhance researchers’ digital literacy and ability to recognize cloaked profiles. Finally, applying techniques to unveil cloaked profiles will arguably strengthen the hermeneutic process of knowledge production in digital observations.

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Double-edged risk: unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) in Sweden and their search for safety

Horning

Jordenö

Savoie

2020

Journal of Refugee Studies

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Many unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) arrived in Sweden with the mass exodus of refugees who fled to the EU in 2015. UMRs are individuals who are under 18 years of age, outside their country of origin and separated from legal care-givers (Separated Children in Europe Programme 2004). In 2016, Swedish public opinion of asylum seekers began to shift from sympathy to fear (Kärrman 2015; Herz 2018) and Sweden implemented policies restricting UMRs’ rights. It was at this pivotal moment that we interviewed UMRs in two youth asylum-centres in rural Sweden. We contextualized this analysis through our concept of ‘double-edged risk’—that is, being at risk despite being viewed as risky. Portrayals of risky refugees depict them as manipulative, and even predatory (Banks 2012). Many of these minors lacked agency from the inception of their journey to the EU to their waiting for their asylum decision. For instance, all of the UMRs in this study were forced by parents to leave and stated they would not have taken the journey had they known the dangers. Initially, we sought to understand how UMRs garnered agency in light of their ‘double-edged’ risk; however, the most salient theme that emerged was their search for safety. In order to attain safety, many of these UMRs resiliently relinquished agency. These findings demystify ideas of the ‘dangerous’ refugee and are useful for understanding UMRs’ plight for refuge in the EU and to improving policies that thwart UMRs’ development.

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Contestations of the Swedish Deportation Regime: Civil Mobilisation for and with Afghan Youth

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?

Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?

Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations

Double-edged risk: unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) in Sweden and their search for safety

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