Asylum experiences in Austria from the perspective of unaccompanied minors

Dursun, Ayşe; Sauer, Birgit

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“…A growing body of literature focuses on asylum‐seeking children (Bhabha, 2014; Bhabha et al, 2018; Glawischnig, 2018; Pruitt, 2021) and pays particularly attention to unaccompanied minors (Alemi & James, 2019; Bassermann & Spiegelfeld, 2018; Clayton et al, 2019; Edlins & Larrison, 2020; Kanics et al, 2010; Koppenberg, 2014; Sedmak et al, 2018; Zschirnt, 2011). This includes some existing research for Austria (Dursun & Sauer, 2018, 2021), yet there is scarce literature about asylum‐seeking children who arrive with their families. The existing literature primarily focuses on government practices, limited access to services, social welfare practices and family psychosocial problems (Giner, 2007; Newbigging & Thomas, 2011; Sime & Fox, 2015; Wiegersma et al, 2011).…”

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Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality

2022

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This article sheds light on the waiting period experienced by asylum-seeking children in Austria. We argue that this period can be defined as a 'phase of liminality' in which 'precarity' of asylum seekers is produced. The article analyses how children experience institutional settings that produce precarity in relation to their well-being. The aim is to contribute to a sound understanding of children's experiences while waiting for an asylum decision and to a child-centred perspective on children that focuses on their needs, wishes and agency. The article draws on 27 interviews with asylum-seeking children living in a basic services accommodation in Vienna, conducted in 2020 and 2021. The findings demonstrate the importance of listening to asylum-seeking children to support their well-being during this phase of liminality and implementing child-centred asylum policies that are responsive to children's well-being.

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Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality

2022

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Children, adults or both? Negotiating adult minors and interests in a state care facility in Malta

Otto

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Finding Keys: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators for Refugee Children’s Disclosure of Their Life Stories

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Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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The systematic review presented in this article aims to reveal what supports and hampers refugee children in telling their, often traumatic, life stories. This is important to ensure that migration decisions are based on reliable information about the children's needs for protection. A systematic review was conducted in academic journals, collecting all available scientific knowledge about the disclosure of life stories by refugee minors in the context of social work, guardianship, foster care, asylum procedures, mental health assessment, and therapeutic settings. The resulting 39 studies were thoroughly reviewed with reference to what factors aided or hampered the refugee children's disclosure of their life stories. The main barriers to disclosure were feelings of mistrust and self-protection from the side of the child and disrespect from the side of the host community. The facilitators for disclosing life stories were a positive and respectful attitude of the interviewer, taking time to build trust, using nonverbal methods, providing agency to the children, and involving trained interpreters. Social workers, mentors, and guardians should have time to build trust and to help a young refugee in revealing the life story before the minor is heard by the migration authorities. The lack of knowledge on how refugee children can be helped to disclose their experiences is a great concern because the decision in the migration procedure is based on the story the child is able to disclose.

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Asylum experiences in Austria from the perspective of unaccompanied minors

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Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality

Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality

Children, adults or both? Negotiating adult minors and interests in a state care facility in Malta

Finding Keys: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators for Refugee Children’s Disclosure of Their Life Stories

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