Theorizing Children’s Political Agency

Häkli, Jouni; Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina

doi:10.1007/978-981-287-041-4_1

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“…All refugees we have talked with, in our present and previous studies, have brought up the major significance of familial relations. This resonates with our findings from research with Finnish and English children and youth who, similarly, emphasized the importance of familiality in their lives though a spectrum of caring and uncaring relationships and agencies (Kallio 2018;Häkli and Kallio 2018b). We therefore consider familialityrather than the family -an essential focus in critical geographical research that seeks to further 'trouble care' (Bartos in this special issue).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 72%

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Care as mundane politics: contested familial refugee lives in Finland

Kallio

Häkli

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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Refugees often find themselves in challenging positions regarding their familial relations while seeking asylum. Whereas transnational human rights agreements and institutions identify families as units of protection and sources of care with variable compositions, many immigration policies and humanitarian practices regard familial relations also problematic and interpret refugees' rights to family life narrowly. This leaves refugees' attempts to draw from and manage their transnational family lives poorly recognized and supported. In result, refugees may end up in paradoxical subject positions of having to give up and take responsibility for their families, with their own experiences and understanding of familial life remaining secondary. These contradictions are heightened when familial concerns are among the reasons for seeking asylum, involving caring and uncaring relations. In this paper, we analyze familiality as a form of mundane care politics in refugee situations, based on our study with asylum seekers and refugees in Finland.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 72%

“…People's familial relations and roles form an important arena for mundane politics in a number of ways, as we have discussed in our previous work (Häkli and Kallio 2018b;Kallio , 2016aKallio , 2016b. Familial life is saturated with caring relations and practices, where the stakes are high in their presence as much as absence.…”

Section: Care As Mundane Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%