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Children of the Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Unaccompanied Refugee Youth In and en Route to Europe book cover

1st Edition

Children of the Crisis Ethnographic Perspectives on Unaccompanied Refugee Youth In and en Route to Europe

Edited By Annika Lems, Kathrin Oester, Sabine Strasser Copyright 2022
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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Every year, thousands of young people on the run from war and persecution, or escaping poverty and chronic instability, make their way to Europe without their parents. Embarking on long and often dangerous journeys, they have either become separated from their families on the way or set out on their own. In recent years, the number of unaccompanied minors arriving in Europe has risen drastically.... Read more

1. Introduction

Annika Lems, Kathrin Oester and Sabine Strasser

2. Family project or individual choice? Exploring agency in young Eritreans’ migration

Milena Belloni

3. The border event in the everyday: hope and constraints in the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers in Turkey

Sabine Strasser and Eda Elif Tibet

4. Children, adults or both? Negotiating adult minors and interests in a state care facility in Malta

Laura Otto

5. Across the threshold: negotiations of deservingness among unaccompanied young refugees in Sweden

Ulrika Wernesjö

6. Being inside out: the slippery slope between inclusion and exclusion in a Swiss educational project for unaccompanied refugee youth

Annika Lems

7. The limits of freedom: migration as a space of freedom and loneliness among Afghan unaccompanied migrant youth

Francesca Meloni

8. Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond

Elaine Chase

9. Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: the hidden sides of research with migrant young people classified as unaccompanied minors

Elaine Chase, Laura Otto, Milena Belloni, Annika Lems and Ulrika Wernesjö 

Biography

Annika Lems is Head of the independent research group ‘Alpine Histories of Global Change’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Her work broadly concerns the ways people experience, negotiate, and actively create place attachments in an age of rapid global transformations.

Kathrin Oester was Professor for research on migration and mobility at the University of Teacher Education, PH Bern, Switzerland; her work is focused on youth, media, migration, and education. Today, she is an associated researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Sabine Strasser is Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Her work is situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, and critical border studies and addresses the impact of the European border regime on the everyday life of people on the move

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