Marja Tiilikainen, M. K. Fylkesnes, Sharon A. McGregor
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Abstract
In this article, we explore the role of family-like relationships in creating wellbeing for unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) to Europe. Our theoretical point of departure is a relational approach to wellbeing as conceptualized by Sarah C. White. The data comprises interviews with 51 settled UMRs in Finland, Norway, and Scotland, focused on their social networks, and a selection of paired interviews with young people alongside someone they defined as family-like and important for their wellbeing today. Findings illuminate the important role family-like relationships have in meeting the daily needs of young refugees. These relationships are ascribed meaning in the context of young people’s wider networks and ideas of ‘what family should do’. Family-like relationships gain particular importance for UMRs in two different ways: first, the physical absence of the family of origin enforces children and young people’s need to create trusted, reciprocal networks. Second, building family-like relationships is necessary in a new country where UMRs grow up and face new expectations, needs, and opportunities. We argue that relational wellbeing is built in a hybrid ‘third space’. A welfare state should support the wellbeing of UMRs by nurturing welcoming communities and providing UMRs help with building family-like relationships through formal and other support networks.
在本文中,我们探讨了家庭般的关系在为欧洲无人陪伴的未成年难民(UMRs)创造福祉方面的作用。我们的理论出发点是莎拉·c·怀特(Sarah C. White)提出的一种关系幸福感方法。这些数据包括对芬兰、挪威和苏格兰的51位已定居的umr的采访,重点关注他们的社交网络,以及对年轻人的配对采访,他们认为这对他们今天的幸福很重要。调查结果阐明了家庭般的关系在满足年轻难民的日常需要方面所起的重要作用。在年轻人更广泛的网络和“家庭应该做什么”的想法的背景下,这些关系被赋予了意义。家庭般的关系在两个不同的方面对农村人口流动者尤为重要:首先,原生家庭的实际缺失迫使儿童和年轻人需要建立信任、互惠的网络。其次,在一个新国家,在那里,umr成长起来,面临新的期望、需求和机会,建立家庭般的关系是必要的。我们认为,关系幸福是建立在一个混合的“第三空间”。福利国家应通过培育友好的社区,并通过正式和其他支持网络,帮助弱势群体建立家庭般的关系,从而支持弱势群体的福祉。