Developmental Affordances of War-Torn Landscapes: Growing up in Sarajevo under Siege

Lučić, Luka

doi:10.1159/000448228

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“…Narrating in everyday life turns outward to the environment as one is observing and trying to understand the environment and one's self (Daiute, 2010;Jovic, 2019;Lucic, 2016;Nelson, 2007). It is as though the young person is creating a film, perusing the physical and emotional landscape, and implicitly asking "What's going on here?"…”

Section: Narrating Is a Sense-making Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrating Crisis From War Zones to Disease Zones

Daiute

2020

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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Previous research with young people growing up during and after wars offers insights for how youth are understanding and coping with the COVID-19 crisis. This literature review summarizes findings from research with adolescents who shared their experience and knowledge in war zones as those findings apply to research with youth in this pandemic. Circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic differ in important ways from military wars, yet emerging research explains how abrupt disruptions of daily life and consequences like lack of social support and uncertainty challenge young people’s psychosocial orientations and health. A brief review of issues relevant to youth in crises sets the scene for a discussion of how their uses of narratives in war zones engaged powerful psychosocial processes, including sense making, imagining, and advising, and how those processes apply to youth narrating in disease zones. Focus is on how such discourse activities symbolically manage instability, uncertainty, and separation challenging youth in the COVID-19 era. Because narrating is an interactive process, adults’ open invitations and empathetic listening to youth storytelling are, moreover, pivotal for supporting youth expression rather than shutting it down. The article concludes with implications for future research with youth growing up in the COVID-19 crisis.

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Section: Narrating Is a Sense-making Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrating Crisis From War Zones to Disease Zones

Daiute

2020

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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“…We have little evidence of how these extra demands on refugee children evolve and are addressed. That is partly because refugee children are not usually consulted, especially about their perspectives, despite children's unique vantage points as observers and participants (Lloyd-Smith & Tarr, 2000;Lucić, 2016;Söderbäck, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They have viewed family displacement, trauma, and loss with cognitive and emotional lenses differing from those of adults, and their propensities for recovery and resilience are enacted in environments that do not figure in the adult landscape (Goodnow & Lawrence, 2015;Lucić, 2016). They are able to make suggestions for assisting their recovery, for example, greater access to recreational facilities and playmates (Escot, Mahfouz, Feghaly, Saade, & Varady, 2016).…”

Section: Refugee Children's Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer-Assisted Expressions of the Perspectives of Refugee Children in Resettlement

Lawrence¹,

Kaplan²,

Dodds³

2019

Human Development

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Understanding the perspectives of refugee children on their lives is important for acknowledging children’s rights, competence, and contributions to practice and policy. Children’s perspectives are the views they construct for framing events, relationships and images, and the meanings they convey in relational coactions with other people and institutions. We demonstrate the usefulness of digital technology in the form of computer-assisted interviews (CAIs) for enabling refugee children to express perspectives on their lives in resettlement. We describe how CAIs constructed by adopting a child’s perspective recognize the children’s agency and enable their expressions of their perspectives. We illustrate the facilities of CAIs with analyses of children’s ratings and open-ended typed comments about their worries and who helps them to feel better. Children’s views revealed the predominance of family members as sources of worry and help. We discuss the implications of using digital technology in research to provide children with ways of contributing to knowledge construction.

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“…Negotiations of normative tasks in exceptional circumstances may change children's ordinary activities into extraordinary accomplishments and lead to the development of unexpected skills (Guyot 2007). Lucić (2016), for example, discovered how children took things into their own hands during the siege of Sarajevo. They efficiently managed the mix of the normal, everyday activity of walking to school with the exceptional skills they needed to dodge artillery in the streets.…”

Section: A Refugee Childmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rights of Refugee Children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Lawrence

Dodds

Kaplan

et al. 2019

Laws

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Refugee children are identified as rights-bearers by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), but their rights are not uniformly honored in the policies and practices of contemporary states. How the CRC's safeguards for refugee children's rights are honored depends partly on what it means to be 'a refugee child' and partly on how the claims of refugee children's rights are recognized, respected, and implemented in international and national legal and bureaucratic systems. We examine the CRC's affirmation of the rights of the child and analyze the CRC's articles in relation to the rights related to the life circumstances of refugee children and state responsibilities. Following an analysis of resistance to the CRC's mandates by contemporary states, we relate refugee children's rights to their refugee and developmental experiences and argue for repositioning refugee children into the center of protection dialogue and practice, internationally and nationally.interpret as a current refugee crisis and populist politics, contemporary states favor national well-being and border security over the well-being of refugee children. We examine evidence that states have worked to relegate refugee children to the margins of protection discourse and to the margins of society. There are persistent tendencies to either overlook refugee children as invisible or to deny that they are children or refugees. We argue for a radical repositioning of refugee children into the center of the protection dialogue and into the center of state policy and practice. Only such a central position will give refugee children the due respect that is responsive to the intermingling of their refugee and developmental experiences and support their rights to develop fully in the present and future as envisaged in the CRC Preamble. 2 Identifying a Refugee ChildThe concepts of 'child' and 'refugee' are not consistently defined across disciplines, although both concepts are critical structural markers for positioning this doubly vulnerable group as children distinct from adults and refugees distinct from citizens. How refugee children's rights are recognized and enacted in legal and immigration systems is largely dependent on how refugee children are defined as being children and refugees. A ChildThere is no generic or typical child. Children differ from each other in many ways, including the defining characteristic of being a child distinct from an adult. The adult/child distinction may seem simple-children and adults are distinguished by age, where age is a rough marker of different periods of the life cycle. The simplicity of this distinction, however, is deceptive. Age-lines and the boundaries of life periods are moveable and vary within and across individuals in relation to personal experience and the sociocultural context. Each child is bodily embedded in a specific historical and cultural time and place that give her age meaning. Consider, for instance, a girl who is 12 years of age in the early 19th, 20th, or 21st century. Not ...

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Developmental Affordances of War-Torn Landscapes: Growing up in Sarajevo under Siege

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Narrating Crisis From War Zones to Disease Zones

Narrating Crisis From War Zones to Disease Zones

Computer-Assisted Expressions of the Perspectives of Refugee Children in Resettlement

The Rights of Refugee Children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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