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Living in the Shadow of Political Decisions: Former Refugees’ Experiences of Supporting Newly Arrived Refugee Minors
Dalarna University, School of Health and Welfare, Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0106-2839
Dalarna University, School of Health and Welfare, Caring Science/Nursing. Uppsala University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0038-9402
2021 (English)In: The Journal of Refugee Studies, ISSN 0951-6328, E-ISSN 1471-6925, Vol. 34, no 4, p. 4121-4139Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Intending to support the cultural integration of unaccompanied refugee minors into the Swedish society, the Save the Children charity organization arranged meeting places in 2018 in four municipalities in Sweden. The mentors for the activities at these meeting places were recruited among former refugees who themselves had arrived in Sweden as unaccompanied minors. The study aimed to explore the experiences of being a mentor offering peer support to unaccompanied minor refugees at the meeting places. In this study, four semi-structured group interviews were conducted at the meeting places with 14 mentors, also former refugees. Data were analysed using thematic network analysis. Although the respondents expressed frustration concerning the Swedish migration politics, they all perceived the helping role as of utmost importance and connected this to positive emotions. The study highlights the unique contributions of peer support to the integration process of refugee minors by mentors providing social support, sharing experience-based knowledge and helping minors to navigate an often confusing and complex welfare system.

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2021. Vol. 34, no 4, p. 4121-4139
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refugee, unaccompanied minors, integration, peer support, qualitative
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Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-35673DOI: 10.1093/jrs/feaa096ISI: 000754315000028Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85125407503OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-35673DiVA, id: diva2:1511152
Available from: 2020-12-17 Created: 2020-12-17 Last updated: 2025-10-09Bibliographically approved

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