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- Fattali, Hoda, et al.
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Learning from the outsiders-within: wearing the niqab in Swedish teacher profession and training
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In: Race Ethnicity and Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1361-3324 .- 1470-109X.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses how the politics of the niqab manifests in educational settings by drawing on interviews with niqabi Swedish teachers and teachers-in-training. Participants contested dominant discourse on niqabi wearers as 'unassimilated' and out-of-place in multicultural education. They built on their marginal positions as outsiders-within education to affirm children's cultural identities and religious rights neglected by mainstream educators. Contrary to the preconception that the niqab "hides teachers' face", participants wore the niqab up when alone with children and introduced it to pupils in intimate and hands-on interactions. Suggestively, through unfolding pupil-teacher relationships, children gained a child-centric view of the niqabi teachers, to which adults in the public space are exempt. Participants were arbitrarily included in Muslim and mainstream schools as individual educators saw fit, illustrating lack of institutional rights in the schools and universities participants attended.
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- Wahlström Smith, Åsa, 1978
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Challenging the deportation regime: reflections on the research encounter with undocumented refugee children in Sweden
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In: Children's Geographies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1473-3285 .- 1473-3277. ; 19:1, s. 101-112
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- © 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines the researcher’s potential role and responsibility to facilitate undocumented refugee children’s political voice and participation. The paper raises issues of the social status and position scholars give to children in research and epistemological concerns regarding the co-production of children’s political assertions in the research encounter. Based on anthropological and participatory research with undocumented refugee children, the article shows that children were often withholding their suffering from family members and it was novel for children to talk openly about their situations with the researcher. However, as trusting relationships developed, children came to formulate and express a social critique of their undocumented situations. Based on children’s accounts, the research project engaged with a range of public actors to promote critical dialogue around these children and contribute to societal practice. It is argued that children’s lived rights and politics are properly acknowledged when researchers facilitate children’s political engagements.
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- Wahlström Smith, Åsa, 1978
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Hiding in Plain Sight’: Daily Strategies and Fear Management among Undocumented Refugee Children in Sweden
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In: Journal of Refugee Studies. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0951-6328 .- 1471-6925. ; 31:4, s. 588-604
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- Undocumented refugee children live a paradoxical existence, excluded from the right to remain in Sweden while at the same time holding formal rights to education and health. Building on long-term ethnographic research with 19 undocumented children aged 6 to 17, my analysis shows that children carry a pivotal role in hiding their own and the family’s whereabouts and migration status. The concept of invisibility is used to explain the political and social forces at play in relation to which undocumented refugee children attempt to hide ‘in plain sight’. To maintain social invisibility, I suggest, children must work out whom to reveal their undocumented refugee status to, in both close and distant social relationships. The issue of undocumented migrant children’s access to human rights within the local authority is discussed, as well as children’s active role in contributing to and transforming the undocumented migration situation.
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- Wahlström Smith, Åsa, 1978
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Surviving through the kindness of strangers: can there be “wellbeing” among undocumented refugee children?
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In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1748-2623 .- 1748-2631. ; 15:Suppl 2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Purpose: The paper exames notions of health and wellbeing in the context of radically retracted rights to political asylum. It questions the tendency in previous research to regard the political economy of refugee protection as a parallel issue to a range of factors affecting children’s health. Methods: Based on ethnographic research with 19 undocumented refugee children in Sweden, the paper illustrates ways in which the deportation regime conditions participants’ health. Results: Findings show that children lived with precarious status for the better part of their childhoods, alternating between undocumented and asylum seeking statuses. Participants accessed formal rights to education and health through complete or relative strangers at risk of exposure to authorities. The paper argues that conceptualisations of refugee children’s suffering in terms of risk and protective factors are redundant in this context. Moreover, deportability, protracted refugee situations and deprived material conditions are not unique to undocumented refugees, but characterise most refugee children’s lives in welfare states today. Conclusion: In relation to the plight of the refugee child, wellbeing seems to refer to an abstract ontology of desirable states of the human experience, far removed from the real day-to-day lives of individuals shaped by social suffering and structural violence.
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