Everyday negotiations of belonging - making Mexican masks together with unaccompanied minors in Finland

Korjonen‐Kuusipuro, Kristiina; Kuusisto, Anna-Kaisa; Tuominen, Jaakko

doi:10.1080/13676261.2018.1523539

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“…This is in line with prior studies that have shown that connectedness, a decent socioeconomic situation, stable living conditions, and opportunities to learn the language, support integration (Carswell et al, 2011;Varvin, 2017;Vervliet et al, 2014). Moreover, prior studies indicate that creatives activities might be a context in which youth from different backgrounds can encounter each other, and understand social codes (Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Kuusisto, & Tuominen, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors’ understandings of integration. An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Hosseini

Punzi

2021

Smith College Studies in Social Work

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There is a lack of knowledge concerning how unaccompanied refugee minors (UMs) perceive integration. This study concerns how Afghan UMs in Sweden understand integration. Seven young men, age 18-23, who came to Sweden as UMs, participated in semi-structured interviews, analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The results showed that integration was understood as a process in which relationships, connectedness, and concrete support are fundamental. Education, employment, and leisure activities were important for integration. Integration also improved by contributing to the new country, for example, through paying taxes or voluntary work. We discuss how integration could be supported, for example, through making UMs cocreators of interventions and through acknowledging the importance of meaningful activities, relationships, and concrete support.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors’ understandings of integration. An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Hosseini

Punzi

2021

Smith College Studies in Social Work

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“…Ahmed (1999) asserts that the issues of migration automatically relate to the concept of home, which in turn is linked to issues of belonging (e.g. Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Kuusisto, & Tuominen, 2018). A similar perspective is brought up by Wernesjö (2015), highlighting the necessity of understanding home and belonging as processes that may change over time.…”

Section: Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The concept of home – unaccompanied youths voices and experiences

Börjesson

Forkby

2020

European Journal of Social Work

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In Sweden, unaccompanied youths are placed within residential care units. However, to settle in a foreign country and feel emotional belonging is more complex than access to a physical building. The aim of this study is to critically discuss the concept of 'home' as experienced by the youths, narrated in nine focus group interviews. These interviews occurred in the aftermath of a turbulent migration time (2015), when over 35,000 unaccompanied youths arrived in Sweden. A transnational theoretical perspective stretches the meaning across national borders, when home links to people, processes and other geographical places. It is difficult to create an environment that mirrors the emotional attachment described in analysis. Earlier research has shown that residential care workers refer to the institutional setting as home, yet the results of this study show that the young people relate to the concept differently. Staff utilisation of the concept of home rather emphasises the lack of home-like aspects for the youths, creating a frustration in the current institutional conditions. Staff in residential care units must therefore be aware of the different interpretations and reactions that their actions and communications generate, in order to respond to various needs. ABSTRAKTEtt boende alternativ för ensamkommande unga i Sverige är hem för vård och boende (HVB). Att komma till ett nytt land och skapa förutsättning för känslomässig tillhörighet är mer komplext än att få tillgång till en fysisk byggnad. Syftet med den här studien är att kritiskt diskutera hembegreppet baserat på ungdomarnas egna upplevelser, delgett i nio olika fokus-grupps intervjuer. Intervjuerna utfördes i efterdyningarna av en turbulent tid då det 2015 anlände över 35,000 ensamkommande unga i Sverige. Ett transnationellt teoretiskt perspektiv breddar förståelsen och sträcker sig över nationella gränser där hem länkas samman till människor, processer och olika geografiska platser. Det är svårt att skapa en miljö som motsvarar den emotionella samhörighet som de unga beskriver i studien. Tidigare forskning har visat att personal på HVB relaterar till den institutionella miljön i termer av ett hem, resultatet av vår studie visar dock att de ungas förståelse av begreppet skiljer sig åt. Personalens sätt att relatera till HVB som hem understryker snarare avsaknaden av hemlika element från de ungas perspektiv och skapar således frustration. Personalen behöver vara medvetna om de olika tolkningarna och reaktionerna som deras kommunikation genererar, för att kunna bemöta olika behov.

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“…For young people with backgrounds of migration a sense of safety within relationships has often been broken. This happens through diverse and complex experiences but has lasting effects on young people's abilities to feel safe, stable and to trust (Korjonen-Kuusipuro et al 2018). Issues and questions around trust, in particular around fear of judgment from others, existed within the group.…”

Section: Building Relationships and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The further development of this work with young migrants, together with young people marginalized within the care system more broadly, may create opportunities for young people to come together and learn across perceived lines of difference, building towards more inclusive societies. Additionally, by developing this work with other young people within the communities where these young people currently live, and will be transitioning into, it may become possible for young people to translate their knowledge into concrete action, and make meaningful connections with their future selves, and future lives (Korjonen-Kuusipuro et al 2018).…”

Section: Implications For Building Belonging With Young Migrants In Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Building Belonging through Art with Young Migrants Living in Care in South Africa

Shahrokh

Treves²

2020

AHMR

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As young people with migration experiences build their lives in new contexts, their connectedness to who they are, to other people, to place and to culture underpin whether and how a sense of belonging is built in their lives. Belonging as a concept matters in young lives as it is underpinned by feelings of acceptance, inclusion and self determination. The realization of belonging can have important implications for young people's wellbeing and development. This paper shares the barriers to belonging for young migrants in South Africa, and how the pain of past experiences, and the exclusions they are navigating in the present constrain their sense of agency, impacting self worth and relationship formation. We share how a child and youth care center in Cape Town specializing in supporting young migrants and young people with experiences of trauma, innovated with a group of young women through participatory arts-based methods towards building belonging. We found that layering multiple arts methods can support young people to connect to their cultural roots and personal relationships, re-build trust, reimagine their identities as part of a collective and challenge power relations around gender, nationality and generation. We found that building belonging should be seen as a continuous learning process, that builds young people's reflective capacities to understand self and others and to make sense of the interaction between past, present and future. In turn, belonging provides an important conceptual tool for youth-led, context-specific approaches to working with young migrants, including on youth transitions.

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Everyday negotiations of belonging - making Mexican masks together with unaccompanied minors in Finland

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors’ understandings of integration. An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors’ understandings of integration. An interpretative phenomenological analysis

The concept of home – unaccompanied youths voices and experiences

Building Belonging through Art with Young Migrants Living in Care in South Africa

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