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De ensamkommandes ensamhet: Unga migranters röster om exkludering och förutsättningar för integration i två norrländska landsbygdskommuner
Högskolan i Halmstad, Sverige.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1583-8055
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Ethnology. (FoU Hälsingland)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1583-8055
Hälsinglands utbildningsförbund, Sverige. (FoU Hälsingland)
2023 (Swedish)In: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, ISSN 1104-1420, E-ISSN 2003-5624, Vol. 30, no 3, p. 681-699Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this article is to deepen our understanding of integration and exclusion of unaccompanied minors, by using a phenomenological, affective framework on their experiences and feelings. The article is based on qualitative interviews with 36 young people who came to two northern rural municipalities in Sweden without guardians during 2015. The interview situation raised questions about our research position, which is reflected upon in an autobiographical note. The study shows that various forms of loneliness and feelings of exclusion are a consistent theme in the young people's life stories. The loneliness often appears as situational and connected to the migration experience and the initial reception in the recipient country. The interviews also contain voices of great loss, but also concern, in relation to the family of origin. Sometimes a distrust of the interview situation could be discerned, where the young people's lives made a strong impression, and loneliness was embodied. The results open for questioning a medicalization of social and existential needs, but also of the problematic nature of a traditional researcher role in this context. 

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Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023. Vol. 30, no 3, p. 681-699
Keywords [en]
unaccompanied minors, loneliness, feelings of exclusion, rural Sweden
Keywords [sv]
Ensamkommande, ensamhet, exkludering, landsbygd, Sverige
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Historical Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53285DOI: 10.3384/svt.2023.30.3.4041OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-53285DiVA, id: diva2:1829750
Available from: 2024-01-19 Created: 2024-01-19 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved

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