5. Parallel Societies: A Biased Discourse Ignoring
the Impact of Housing Market and Policy

Borch, Anita

doi:10.18261/9788215031699-2019-05

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“…Discourses are understood here as culturally and historically transmitted knowledge about children's connections embedded in social practices, including those of writing and publishing peer-reviewed academic articles. Discourses are created and recreated in social practices carried by social actors ("spokesmen") with vested interests (Borch, 2012(Borch, , 2019Borch & Kjaernes, 2016). For example, psychologists and sociologists would most likely tend to emphasise the importance of studying individual/cognitive and contextual/social factors influencing children's connections, respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This analysis is based on a critical discourse review methodology conducted by Borch (2012Borch ( , 2019 and Borch and Kjaernes (2015). The methodology is built on several assumptions about the technical construction of discourses and fields of knowledge, drawing on Foucault's work on discourses in general and the book The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972) in particular.…”

Section: The Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…have different perceptions of "good" and "important" knowledge. If one or a few disciplines dominate fields of knowledge, the knowledge that is (re)produced within these fields is at risk of becoming biased in highlighting some knowledge and ignoring others (Borch, 2019;Borch & Kjaernes, 2016). If these biases are not revealed, structures of interest and power that have made their mark in fields of knowledge will tend to stabilise or reduce (Borch, 2012) at the expense of scientific novelty and progress.…”

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Immigrant Children’s Connections to People and the World Around Them: A Critical Discourse Review of Academic Literature

Borch¹

2022

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A primary goal of the welfare state is to ensure that children and young people have a good upbringing and that families feel secure. However, several studies indicate that the risk of marginalisation and social exclusion increases, especially among children of low‐income and immigrant families. Why some children seem to be more loosely connected to people and the world around them is poorly understood. Based on a Foucauldian critical discourse review, this article aims to explore the most cited academic discourses on children’s connections to the social and material environment—typically referred to by terms such as “social inclusion,” “social participation,” “social integration,” and “social exclusion.” The main research questions are: What has been addressed in this literature, by whom, and what are the knowledge gaps? Some of the most important observations are that the most influential literature on children’s connections is typically written by psychologists, address children settled in the US, and tends to neglect important explanation factors, such as the material conditions of children’s everyday life. Implications for the (re)production of knowledge and knowledge gaps are discussed.

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