A Portrait of Life: A Poetic Exploration of Young Migrants’ Narratives of Nostalgia, Struggles, and Belonging in Sweden

• Poetry can serve different purposes: it can be therapeutic, a testimony, or a rebellious expression of injustice. In my presentation, I will explore the lived experiences of 13 Afghan young men and women referred to as "Unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children" in Sweden. To bring their stories to life, I will adapt an art-based research approach that involves creating I-poems and Found poems from participants' migration and resettlement narratives. Additionally, I will present and read the poems I have written based on transcribed interviews with the participants. Those poems highlight various challenges associated with migration and resettlement, including loneliness, in betweenness, nostalgia, belonging, and melancholia. Furthermore, they also shed light on participants' aspirations to rebuild their lives in a new country after the process of forced migration.

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HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities (hsv//eng)

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