FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIETY | Seminar
How are children affected by growing up under a prolonged threat of deportation?
Wednesday 12 February, 13:15 - 15:00
Niagara, NI:C1129, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1
Welcome to a seminar with Jacob Lind, postdoc, Department of Global Political Studies (GPS), Malmö university and visiting international post doc at Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), Copenhagen University.
Title
"How are children affected by growing up under a prolonged threat of deportation? Young adults’ retrospective perspectives on childhoods in deportability"
General information
No need to register your attendance in advance. If you have questions please contact Kettil Nordesjö.
Program for the social work seminar (in Swedish)
Fearing deportation for a prolonged time has long-lasting negative effects on children. I have interviewed young adults in Denmark and Sweden about their lives, focusing on extended periods during their childhoods when they were living in Danish asylum camps or in Sweden as undocumented migrants. Retrospective perspectives of young people enable views about childhood that are not possible to get when talking to children directly. In this seminar, I will present initial analysis about how these young people talk about how extended childhood deportability have impacted who they are today and their relationship to Danish and Swedish society. The analysis engages in questions such as the following: How is a “normal” childhood perceived by those who have not experienced one? How do children cope while, and young people “move on” after, experiencing extensive childhood trauma?
