At the Age of Twelve: Migrant Children and the Disruption of Multicultural Belonging

Greensmith, Cameron; Sheppard, Lindsay C.

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“…Social determinants of health also need to be considered and explored in health visits since the social environment and social context influence how children become involved and actively contribute in the health visit [ 23 ]. In addition, the possibilities and rights of children of foreign origin to share their own experiences, needs and preferences need to be promoted [ 52 ]. By adjusting the promotion of participation to the needs of the individual child, based on both individual preferences and the social determinants of health, the participation of children of foreign origin can be promoted in a way that contributes to equity in health.…”

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Adjusting and doing the same: school nurses’ descriptions of promoting participation in health visits with children of foreign origin

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Background School nurses in the school health services are assigned to promote health and participation among children when conducting health visits. Still, for children of foreign origin this promotion of participation might be hampered by challenges related to cultural diversity and language barriers. Therefore, knowledge needs to be developed regarding how these children’s participation can be promoted, to support them in sharing and describing matters important for their health. The aim was to investigate school nurses’ descriptions of promoting participation for children of foreign origin in health visits. Methods A content analysis of 673 Swedish school nurses’ answers to eight open-ended questions regarding promotion of participation for children of foreign origin was conducted. The open-ended questions were part of a larger web-based cross-sectional survey distributed to school nurses in Sweden. Results The results show that school nurses use three main approaches during the health visit: adjusting according to the child’s proficiency in Swedish and/or cultural or national background, adjusting according to the child’s individual needs, and doing the same for all children regardless of their origin. Yet, adjustments according to the child’s proficiency in Swedish and/or cultural or national background were the most common. Conclusions By combining the approaches of adjusting, a child-centered care that contributes to children’s participation in health visits and equity in health could be provided.

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“…With these inquiries is an underlying assumption that race and racism are unsuitable for children and are solely ‘adult matters’. As something they should be protected from and not be exposed to while still belonging to ‘the child’ category (Greensmith & Sheppard, 2018). That is not to say that children should not be protected.…”

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Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence

Yang

2023

Children & Society

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This article examines the concept of ‘child‐friendliness’ through different notions of innocence in a Danish context. It looks at how such notions are upheld, negotiated and inform ideas of race, making race seem a concern primarily for adults. The analysis is based on empirical material conducted with children (age 11–12) and their discussions about a storyline for a video game. Here race becomes central when the children call one of the locations in their game ‘n‐word Island’. They later reconsider the name because, according to the children, the name is racist and thus not ‘child‐friendly’.

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“…At the same time, many colonial administrators romanticized and exoticized those they were colonizing and felt compelled through racist stereotyping to preserve their (white) image of an unspoilt (black) Africa (Goerg 2012), much in the same way that the (heterosexual) Western imaginary calls for the preservation of 'childhood innocence' (Greensmith and Sheppard 2017;Morrigan 2017;Scraton 1997). However, rather than merely and ostensibly protecting African children and preserving "Black Africa", the colonizers were most concerned with self-protection and maintaining their economic interests within Africa.…”

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Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide

Mills

LeFrançois

2018

World Futures

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This article mobilises transdisciplinary inquiry to explore and deconstruct the often-used comparison of racialized/colonized people, intellectually disabled people and mad people as being like children. To be childlike is a metaphor that is used to denigrate, to classify as irrational and incompetent, to dismiss as not being knowledge-holders, to justify governance and action on others' behalf, to deem as being animistic, as undeveloped , underdeveloped or wrongly-developed, and, hence, to subjugate. We explore the political work done by the metaphorical appeal to childhood, and particularly the centrality of the metaphor of childhood to legitimising colonialism and white supremacy. The article attends to the ways in which this metaphor contributes to the shaping of the material and discursive realities of racialized and colonized others as well as those who have been psychiatrized and deemed 'intellectually disabled'. Further, we explore specific metaphors of child-colony, and child-mad-'crip'. We then detail the developmental logic underlying the historical and continued use of the metaphorics of childhood and explore how this makes possible an infantilisation of colonized peoples and the global South more widely. The material and discursive impact of this metaphor on children's lives, and particularly children who are racialized, colonized, and/or deemed mad or 'crip', is then considered. We argue that complex adult-child relations, sane-mad relations and Western-majority world relations within global psychiatry, are situated firmly within pejorative notions of what it means to be childlike , and reproduce multi-systemic forms of oppression that, ostensibly in their 'best interests', govern children and all those deemed childlike .

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At the Age of Twelve: Migrant Children and the Disruption of Multicultural Belonging

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Adjusting and doing the same: school nurses’ descriptions of promoting participation in health visits with children of foreign origin

Adjusting and doing the same: school nurses’ descriptions of promoting participation in health visits with children of foreign origin

Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence

Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide

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