The management of time and waiting by unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls in Finland
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This article considers how asylum-seeking girls in residential care in Finland construct their everyday lives while waiting for asylum outcomes. These girls, from various African countries, are shown to experience waiting as both debilitating and productive. First, our findings confirm the established picture of asylum-seeking young people being in limbo, unable to influence the resolution of their claims. Second, we explore more hopeful ways in which they wait. We emphasize the complex responses and relationships they build in waiting times with each other and their carers. We suggest that waiting is not just ‘dead’ time, but is also lively in periods of uncertainty.Citation
Kohli RKS, Kaukko M (2017) 'The management of time and waiting by unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls in Finland', Journal of Refugee Studies, 31 (4), pp.488-506.Publisher
Oxford University PressJournal
Journal of Refugee StudiesType
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enISSN
0951-6328Sponsors
Academy of Finland (SA 304146), Finnish Cultural Foundation, Mannerheim League for Child Welfare and Finnish Multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Network on Educational Sciencesae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/jrs/fex040
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