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Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child

Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child

Herz, Marcus
Lalander, Philip

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Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work

General SociologyImmigration & RefugeesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0367543419
ISBN13: 9780367543419
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 23 2021
Pages: 178
Language: English

This book is about 20 young unaccompanied refugees who have sought refuge in Europe and how they experience and try to navigate their new situations, including their contacts with social workers, friends and family members left behind.

The book contains stories of powerlessness and frustration from being held under suspicion, from meeting authorities and abstract people of power from the system, or from constantly being categorized in a static category of the unaccompanied child. It contains stories of human meetings characterized by thoughtfulness, reciprocity and listening. This book also explores the experiences of meeting social workers as a young migrant in Sweden. The narratives depict how social workers can often reproduce powerlessness and frustration among the young people, but also how there are those social workers who provide something else through the act of listening. By extension, this is a book about society, about how important it can be to reframe people and to listen to their stories, needs and wills.

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