Zugehörigkeit(en) im Kontext von Jugend und Migration — eine Einführung

Doing foster family with young refugees: Negotiations of belonging and being at home

“…This is important because for these young people being at home and feeling at home can also mean having 'landed' and found a place where they can stay, as the quotation at the beginning of this paper shows. However, the interpretation of home and the associated negotiation of feelings of belonging is related not only to the context of 'foster families' but also to the 'assimilation context of Switzerland' or to an individual peer group (Riegel & Geisen, 2010). Accordingly, we can understand the feeling of being at home as an important dimension of the processes of negotiating belonging.…”

“…Accordingly, we attempted to discover concepts that were central for the subjects as they emerged from their accounts of their experiences and ideas. For the data analysis, theoretical considerations regarding a relational understanding of belonging (Riegel & Geisen, 2010;Yuval-Davis, 2006) and doing family (Morgan, 2011) served as sensitising access points and concepts. Such an analysis holds the potential to reconstruct appropriate empirical evidence that can be used to challenge theoretical concepts related to the questions addressed by this article.…”

“…With regard to UMR, the question of belonging becomes significant in terms of the process of integrating into a majority society (Wernesjö, 2015). Furthermore, it is important to mention that UMR are often confronted with experiences of social marginalisation and ascriptions of foreignness (Riegel & Geisen, 2010).…”

“…Accordingly, the present study draws on migration theory for a better understanding of concepts of belonging (Ahmed, 1999;Riegel & Geisen, 2010;Yuval-Davis, 2006). On an analytical level, belonging is understood as associations that are repeatedly re-established situationally through social differentiation.…”