scholarly journals ‘It can never be as perfect as home’: An explorative study into the fostering experiences of unaccompanied refugee children, their foster carers and social workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 104924
Author(s):  
Jet Rip ◽  
Elianne Zijlstra ◽  
Wendy Post ◽  
Margrite Kalverboer ◽  
Erik J. Knorth
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Explorative Study

Civil Servants Talk Back – Political Subjectivity and (Re) Constructions of the Nation

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-442
Author(s):  
Lena Martinsson ◽  
Eva Reimers
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Unaccompanied Children ◽  
Politically Active

This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situations with conflicting norms and contradictory interpellations. When Sweden deported unaccompanied refugee children, numerous social workers and teachers found themselves torn between acting as loyal civil servants or acting in accordance with their professional ethics. When representatives from this category emerge as political subjects directed at political change, the nation state becomes unstable and porous, creating possibilities for change.

scholarly journals Psychosocial Support and Emergency Education: An Explorative Study of Perceptions among Adult Stakeholders in Sudan and South Sudan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1410
Author(s):  
Unni Marie Heltne ◽  
Ragnhild Dybdahl ◽  
Suleima Elkhalifa ◽  
Anders Breidlid
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Emergency Education ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing

The link between education and psychosocial wellbeing is important, but complex. This study seeks to explore stakeholder’s views on the role of school education in the psychosocial support and wellbeing of children in the context of Sudan and South Sudan. Qualitative interviews were conducted among teachers, parents, counsellors, and NGO staff who were stakeholders in terms of providing education and psychosocial support for refugee children or children living in another kind of emergency situation. Even though no integrated psychosocial support was reported, teachers and schools were seen as having important roles to play, especially in terms of material and practical help, as well as for emotional needs. There was a clear motivation for providing more systematic help and access to methods and tools to serve this purpose. The development of helping strategies targeted for use in schools by teachers, which build on and strengthens existing ideas and practices, were explored. The potential for integrated psychosocial support is discussed based on these findings.

Scientising Relief: Nutritional Activism from Shanghai to the Southwest, 1937–1945

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Chen Fu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Soybean Milk ◽  
Nutritional Health ◽  
Imperial State

The Shanghai Refugee Children Nutritional Aid Committee, formed in 1937, sought to improve refugee children’s nutritional health by making and distributing a scientifically tested soybean milk and soybean cakes. By 1942, the Committee had adopted a national platform and changed its moniker to the Chinese Nutritional Aid Council, with plans to open offices and nutrition clinics in Chongqing, Chengdu, Guiyang and Kunming. This paper argues that in linking biomedical understandings of nutrition with social change, this group of Western-trained physicians and young female social workers enacted a new kind of social activism, one which seized upon the food-as-fuel idea and staked the welfare of the nation upon the nutritional health of its citizenry. In contrast to earlier social relief projects promoted by the imperial state and the local philanthropic initiatives of gentry elites, the Chinese Nutritional Aid Committee articulated an image of professional and specialised expertise in the science of nutrition and care. Theirs was a project of modern refashioning in which science played a key and foundational role in crafting their understanding of both relief and the children they aimed to save.

Children in Need: Unaccompanied Refugees

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedi Argent
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
The Uk

‘Some social workers come into contact with refugee children in the course of their work in the UK, but it has not always been clear what is best practice when considering how to make sensitive assessments, arrange appropriate placements and provide adequate support.’ The following article is based on an interview with Louise Williamson, author of the above quote and Director of the Children's Division of the Refugee Council, which was created in 1995 specifically in order to address the needs of refugee children. In collaboration with the writer Hedi Argent, herself a former refugee, Louise Williamson prepared cases to illustrate all the points she wanted to make, but on the understanding that every unaccompanied child has his or her own story and that the circumstances of each are unique.

scholarly journals Τhe Integration of Refugee Children in Education and the Contribution of the Family Environment, According to Social Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Stavros Fragkos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Refugee Education ◽  
The Family

The inclusion of child refugees in the school environment is a complex endeavor. This research will cover the matter of social inclusion of child refugees, in the school community. More specifically, it is conducted with the purpose, of showing aspects of every way, in which the home environment can assist the service of social workers. It concerns a qualitative research, that sampled social workers, educators and other individuals in charge-coordinators, who had previously worked in the field of child refugee education. The results of this research reveal useful intervention techniques, as well as details that have to be taken into consideration during the planning, but also the realizations of such actions.

Fated to be Orphans: The Consequences of Australia's Post-War Resettlement Policy on Refugee Children

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Agutter
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Migrant Child ◽  
Child Placement ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Work Contract

Between 1947 and 1953, Australia received over 170,000 Displaced People from Europe including widows and unmarried mothers. These refugees were expected to conform to the policies and expectations of the State, in particular the adherence to a 2-year work contract. This was an impossibility for many mothers who could not find work or accommodation outside of the government supplied migrant accommodation centres, and who, as a consequence, resorted to placing their children, either temporarily or permanently, in institutions or for adoption. Through an examination of archival documents, this paper examines the policies that resulted in migrant child placement and adoption and considers the role played by Department of Immigration social workers. It asks why, when migrant children were considered amongst the most desirable of new arrivals, were many fated to become orphans?

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