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- Svensson, Malin, 1976, et al.
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“Betwixt and between”: Hope and the meaning of school for asylum-seeking children in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : Helsinki University Press. - 1799-649X. ; 3:3, s. 162-170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the sense of possibility as perceived by asylum-seeking children in Sweden in relation to education. An ethnographic approach brought out children’s own perspectives and motivations, and the hopes they pinned to attending school. It was found that the meaning of school related to children’s need of structure, a sense of belonging and a learning environment. However, their hopefulness was conditioned by their uncertain status as asylum seekers, worrying about being deported. This legal and emotional vulnerability and the limited attention of schools to their predicament risked undermining the benefits of their right to education.
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- Ottosson, Lisa, 1976, et al.
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Assertions and Aspirations: Agency among Accompanied Asylum-Seeking Children in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Children's Geographies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1473-3285 .- 1473-3277. ; 15:4, s. 426-438
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden, this article explores the ways in which accompanied children experience and seek to overcome challenges posed by asylum reception. The focus is on children’s ambition and ability to form their everyday life, given their ambiguous position of tentative emplacement. Theoretical inspiration is sought in Ortner’s ‘agency of personal projects’ and de Certeau’s concept of ‘tactics’, analysed through the prism of liminality. The study found that while some tactics aimed at avoiding situations and settings that made children uncomfortable, others involved influencing their situation through pursuing ‘personal projects’. Many children’s strivings were directed at creating ‘a normal life’ and a place for themselves in Swedish society. The findings challenge the idea that accompanied children are more protected from difficulties and responsibilities than those seeking asylum alone
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- Ottosson, Lisa, et al.
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Safeguarding a Child Perspective in Asylum Reception : Dilemmas of Children's Case Workers in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: The Journal of Refugee Studies. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0951-6328 .- 1471-6925. ; 26:2, s. 247-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the perceptions and practices of Children’s Case Workers (CCW), employed at the Swedish Migration Board to safeguard children’s interests within the Swedish asylum reception system. The extensive discretionary powers that CCWs enjoy in interpreting and implementing policies are of particular significance. This qualitative study highlights the challenges experienced by CCWs at a regional branch, in their position at the intersection between conflicting policy objectives, and given the contradictions inherent in their professional role as street-level bureaucrats. It outlines the strategies employed by CCWs to manage contradiction and ambiguity, such as adapting to organizational pressures and restrictive norms, and exercising restraint in using their discretionary powers, but also finding ways of resisting when the discord between established practice and personal ethics becomes too great. These strategies shape the ways in which policy gets implemented in everyday practice. While a boost to the new image of the Migration Board as an institution promoting human rights, the CCWs find it difficult to implement children’s rights in the proactive ways envisioned. As a result, in CCWs’ experience, rather than being placed at the centre, children tend to be deported to the margins of daily organizational practice.
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- Eastmond, Marita, 1947, et al.
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Education and the relevance of national identities: Responses to post-war curricula in two local settings in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- 2004
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study has been to try to pinpoint some of these dilemmas of this de-centralised education system in post-Dayton Bosnia and examine how they are experienced by the principal users, that is parents, pupils and teachers. Are new national-specific programmes for each of the three constituent groups seen as legitimate and worthy of support ? If so, how do such assessments resonate with actors experiences and how can we account for them in social, political, economic and cultural terms? Another purpose is to use education as a 'strategic window' to help make more visible the challenges of institution-building and legitimacy in today’s BiH, connecting, as education does, macropolitical issues with the concerns and strategies of individuals in everyday life.
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- Eastmond, Marita, 1947, et al.
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Silence as Possibility in Postwar Everyday Life
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Transitional Justice. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1752-7716 .- 1752-7724. ; 6:3, s. 502-524
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Silence is a form of communication as multifaceted as speech and as such conveys a broad range of contextually situated social meanings. Often silence is understood as a form of denial and inherently detrimental to processes of reconciliation, but it may help create a sense of 'normality' and facilitate encounters between former foes. This article enquires into the role and meanings of silence as tacit forms of communication in postwar social processes and everyday life among people of different ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly as used by the displaced and returnees. It argues that in these contentious settings, everyday social interaction employs silence in ways that empower by communicating respect and even trust, thus forming and sustaining relations important to viable local life. Silence can be used to affirm family continuity and protect close relationships. Silent claims may also 'speak' from a marginalized position in relation to hegemonic narratives and make moral claims. Silence may thus be understood as a pragmatic and at times successful strategy for coexistence even when reflecting continued division in the larger society.
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- Eastmond, Marita, 1947
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Shifting Sites: Memories of War and Exile across Time and Place
- 2016
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Ingår i: Palmberger, M. & Tošić, J. (Eds.) Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past. - Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave/Macmillan. - 9781137575487
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter explores the memories of a generational family forced to flee Bonsnia in the 1992-95 war in former Jugoslavia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork over many years and shifting sites, the author aptures the lived experiences of war, exile and return as remembered and told. The analytical focus is on the interplay of memories and individuals' migratory experience and demonstrates the dynamics of postwar memory work in relation to place and generational differences in seeking places of attachment.
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- Andersson, Hans E, 1969, et al.
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Introduktion: Mellan det Förflutna och Framtiden
- 2010
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Ingår i: Mellan det förflutna och framtiden:Asylsökande barns välfärd, hläsa och välbefinnande. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789189608283 ; , s. 3-37
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Beyond Reconciliation: Social reconstruction after the Bosnian war
- 2010
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This special issue of Focaal explores processes of social recovery and peacebuilding in the aftermath of radical violence and political upheaval. The articles draw on detailed ethnographic case studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a country that was shattered by war and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, but raise issues also of relevance to other post-conflict situations. Challenging “reconciliation” as a moral discourse with universalist claims, the issue highlights the dynamics of its localization in different contexts of intervention in post-war society. The four contributions explore different facets of this dynamic as it is played out in the key areas of justice, return, and NGO peace-building activities. They illuminate what happens when the global paradigm of reconciliation encounters and filters through meanings and motivations of actors in local contexts. They also note that everyday interactions between former adversaries take place not as a moral engagement with reconciliation but as part of rebuilding a sense of normality. The findings point to the need to critically investigate the conditions under which such encounters may empower or prohibit the rebuilding of social relations and trust in post-war societies.
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