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University of BedfordshireNorwegian Research Centre
Tampere University
Relational Wellbeing (RWB) Collaborative
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2024-01-15Subjects
Editorial
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Editorial. In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular. We mainly focus on the lives of young adults who came to the global North as unaccompanied children—that is, without an adult responsible for them when they claimed asylum. Many of the papers report from the Drawing Together project (see https://www.drawingtogetherproject.org/, accessed on 11 January 2024). The project focus is on ‘relational wellbeing’ for young refugees—that is, wellbeing that is experienced through actions that repair and amplify a sense of responsibility they and other people have to each other. Hospitality and reciprocity emerge through small acts of fellowship. In time, these build patterns of exchanges between young refugees and those important to them, leading to a mutual sense of ‘having enough’, ‘being connected’, and ‘feeling good’ (White and Jha 2020). This is wellbeing as a shared endeavour. Overall, the project and many contributions in this Special Issue stand at the conjunction between fields of research into wellbeing and refugee studies. The papers span contexts and countries, offering a sense of an international array of experiences, joined by an issue of supra-national importance—that is, the ways interaction and relationality mediate the experiences of becoming and being a refugee.Citation
Kohli RKS, Fylkesnes MK, Kaukko M, White SC (2024) 'Forced migration: a relational wellbeing approach', Social Sciences, 13 (1), 52Publisher
MDPIJournal
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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/1/52Type
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enISSN
2076-0760EISSN
2076-0760ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3390/socsci13010052
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