Children of the Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Unaccompanied Refugee Youth in and En Route to Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032072524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 162 str.

Annika Lems; Kathrin Oester; Sabine Strasser

Opis

This book investigates the emergence of the unaccompanied child refugee as a ‘crisis figure’. It shows how the sense of exceptionality attached to the figure translates into ambiguous and at times extremely contradictory social practices that have far-reaching effects on the lives of refugee youth.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Family project or individual choice? Exploring agency in young Eritreans’ migration 3. The border event in the everyday: hope and constraints in the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers in Turkey 4. Children, adults or both? Negotiating adult minors and interests in a state care facility in Malta 5. Across the threshold: negotiations of deservingness among unaccompanied young refugees in Sweden 6. Being inside out: the slippery slope between inclusion and exclusion in a Swiss educational project for unaccompanied refugee youth 7. The limits of freedom: migration as a space of freedom and loneliness among Afghan unaccompanied migrant youth 8. Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond 9. Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: the hidden sides of research with migrant young people classified as unaccompanied minors