Essays about: "unaccompanied Afghans"
Found 2 essays containing the words unaccompanied Afghans.
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1. “Am I What You See?” Unaccompanied Afghans in the Swedish media and their integration prospects
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : This thesis deals with representation of unaccompanied Afghan immigrants in the Swedish media. In the post-2015 context, unaccompanied Afghans have gained tremendous media attention in Sweden. READ MORE
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2. Choosing Heresy: How Muslim-background Unaccompanied Refugee Minors do identity and belonging in the Church of Sweden
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för MellanösternstudierAbstract : Between 2014-2016, Sweden received an influx of some 44, 617 unaccompanied refugee minors (UMs), under 18-year-olds who enter the country and seek asylum without a parent. Taking a short-term ethnographic approach, this study looks at identity (re)construction and fictive kinship among Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors who convert to Christianity in the Church of Sweden, challenging some of the pre-conceived outsider categorisations of this phenomenon. READ MORE