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“You cannot just st...
“You cannot just stop life for just that”: a qualitative study on children’s experiences on refugee journey to Sweden
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- Mattelin, Erica (författare)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för barnafrid,Medicinska fakulteten,Centrum för social och affektiv neurovetenskap,Save the Children, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Söderlind, Natalie (författare)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för barnafrid,Medicinska fakulteten
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- Korhonen, Laura, Professor, 1974- (författare)
- Linköpings universitet,Centrum för social och affektiv neurovetenskap,Medicinska fakulteten,Avdelningen för barnafrid,Region Östergötland, Barn- och ungdomspsykiatriska kliniken Linköping
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- 2024
- 2024
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. - : SPRINGER. - 1018-8827 .- 1435-165X.
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Abstract
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Children with refugee backgrounds are often exposed to violence and other adverse experiences with well-known detrimental consequences on mental health. However, the current group of approximately 40 million child refugees is heterogeneous, stressing the importance of first-person perspectives in understanding children's unique experiences and needs related to the migration process. Identifying contextual factors promoting health and resilience is also essential. For instance, the roles children play as active agents in constructing their own lives and adapting to different environments are poorly described in contemporary research on child refugees and their mental health. To address these knowledge gaps, we conducted qualitative interviews with a reflexive thematic analysis with eighteen children with refugee backgrounds in Sweden. This resulted in two main themes: Longing for a good life that cannot be taken for granted and Challenged agency and changing rights. The narratives indicate that children, although exposed to different challenges in different migration phases and based on gender and asylum status, have experiences of ordinary childhood with a desire for a good life with prospects. The results also show that children execute active and adaptable agency that is impacted by various factors. Reaching the full age appears to be a confusing and ambivalent transition due to changes in rights. The results pinpoint several possibilities to address factors that pose a risk to health and restrictions of rights among child refugees.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Refugee; Adversity; Resilience; Agency; Human rights; Thematic analysis
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- ref (ämneskategori)
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