Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16381850636644

J. Andreasson, M. Herz

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Utilising data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork this article investigates (a) how asylum seekers portray family life in relation to their decision to flee their country of origin, and (b) how asylum seekers’ ways of doing family life intersect with the Swedish migration context. Analytically, the article leans on sociologically informed theories of family practices and a conceptual discussion on deportability. The results show how family life among the participants is reconstituted both in terms of geographical closeness and distance, and in terms of ideas about a previous family life in the country of origin and hopes for a possible future in Sweden. The insecurity and the strains placed on people and their family bonds by current migration policies, and the risk of deportation, are interpreted as a specific form of administrative violence that cuts into family practices, serving to maintain physical and emotional distance between family members and break down social bonds.

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家庭习俗、递解出境和行政暴力:瑞典移民背景下寻求庇护者家庭生活的民族志研究

利用通过民族志田野调查收集的数据，本文调查了(a)寻求庇护者如何描述与他们逃离原籍国的决定相关的家庭生活，以及(b)寻求庇护者的家庭生活方式如何与瑞典移民背景相交叉。在分析上，文章依赖于家庭实践的社会学知识理论和对可遣返性的概念性讨论。结果显示了参与者的家庭生活是如何从地理上的远近，以及对原籍国以前的家庭生活的想法和对瑞典可能的未来的希望两方面进行重组的。目前的移徙政策给人们及其家庭关系带来的不安全感和压力，以及被驱逐出境的风险，被解释为一种特殊形式的行政暴力，它破坏了家庭习俗，使家庭成员之间保持身体和情感上的距离，破坏了社会关系。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.