‘I Have No Clue About My Future (…) (if) I Stay Here or Not’: Participatory Research With Unaccompanied Minors in the German Reception System

Gebhardt, Mareike; Rocchi, M

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“…The situation of ‘arriving’ in a new context goes hand in hand with a struggle for social positioning in the social space shaped by power relations and, in the case of refugee migration, also with a ‘waiting state’ characterised by uncertainty and with a strong restriction of rights (Gebhardt and Rocchi, 2021). At the same time, this waiting state cannot just be seen as passive stagnation, but a situation that is actively shaped by those affected – within the limits of what is structurally possible, for example in terms of access to the education system or the labour market (Rotter, 2016).…”

Section: Transnational Families Language and Inequality: Theoretical ...mentioning

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Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies

Schnitzer

2023

European Educational Research Journal

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Families that live in a new environment after having fled or migrated go through transformation processes that are connected to various challenges and possibilities. The focus of this paper is on negotiations of language policies in family biographies and family language practices, comparing cases of migrant families who arrived to Switzerland in different legal contexts of migration. The article addresses how these transnational families negotiate the meaning of (family) languages against the background of hegemonic language and migration policies. Questions of how these policies are experienced and dealt with and in what ways they do enable or disable possibilities for action are addressed using a qualitative analysis of narrative family interviews and participant observations in transnational families that now live in German-speaking Switzerland. On the basis of the analyses of interview transcriptions and field notes, I show how families deal with experiences of social and educational inequalities in the context of transnational pathways of education and how these are negotiated in the families. Language learning appears not only as an (un)available possibility, but it also requires one to return to the status of a student. At the same time, it is accompanied by a deep struggle for identity and belonging.

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Section: Transnational Families Language and Inequality: Theoretical ...mentioning

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Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies

Schnitzer

2023

European Educational Research Journal

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Refugee Minors’ Perspectives Explored with the Bridge Drawing and Children’s Hope Scale

Girish,

Lev-Wiesel

2024

Child Ind Res

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Moving from one’s home country to a foreign country due to unforeseen circumstances such as war and unrest is a distressing life event. For minors, such an experience can impact their perception of the past and present alongside future goals and desires. With this background, a pilot study was done to assess the life transition reflected in the Bridge Drawing Test (BDT) of refugee minors who have moved from either Ukraine or Eritrea and are currently living in Israel, with a control group. A mixed-methods design involving BDT and the Children’s Hope Scale (CHS) was administered to a sample (N = 35, 20 girls and 15 boys) consisting of 16 refugee minors and 19 controls aged 4 to 14 years (M = 8.3 years, SD = 2.8). The BDT was assessed using indicators from the original bridge drawing directive and the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) by two Art Therapists (Cohen’s Kappa ranged from 0.6 to 1). Results showed significant group differences in indicators: Prominence of colour, details of objects and environment, obviousness of Solidarity of bridge attachments and high versus low hope from the BDT (Medium effect size & p < .05). Associations between Pathway and Agency with BDT indicator and FEATS were seen. Refugee status also moderated the relationship between the CHS Total score and the subscale of Pathway and BDT indicator, namely Directionality (p = .01 & p = .02). Bridge drawings of refugee minors have differences that can aid in understanding their hope and goals, offering benefits as a diagnostic and therapeutic intervention tool. Future studies with larger samples, and diverse cultural groups are warranted to explore the same.

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‘Civil Society Hospitality’: Welcoming Initiatives and Pragmatism Targeting Unaccompanied Youth in Malmö

Solano

2024

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This article presents the notion of 'civil society hospitality ', addressing welcoming initiatives that open spaces and provide services to unaccompanied youth in Malmö. The article contributes to the literature on bottom-up humanitarianism and focuses on hospitality practices and their limits. Through semi-structured interviews with key civil society actors and attending key events, the article argues that civil society faces limitations in providing services that are embedded in the law and in funding constraints that shift their efforts towards pragmatism with the goal of 'bringing back in' those excluded from a changing social democratic welfare model. On the other hand, the bottom-up initiative of creating a welcoming space is also seen as a form of subversion of migration governance. Civil society hospitality in Malmö illustrates how the guest/host divide is reshaped, contested and reaffirmed. By tracing the services offered within the welcoming initiatives of civil society, this article offers insights into how actors attempt to shape a safe open space that contests current migration governance, but also cooperates with state actors.

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‘I Have No Clue About My Future (…) (if) I Stay Here or Not’: Participatory Research With Unaccompanied Minors in the German Reception System

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies

Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies

Refugee Minors’ Perspectives Explored with the Bridge Drawing and Children’s Hope Scale

‘Civil Society Hospitality’: Welcoming Initiatives and Pragmatism Targeting Unaccompanied Youth in Malmö

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