Unaccompanied migrant girls

Navigating religious girlhood in the UK

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2149479
AutoresR Larkin (0000-0003-3969-7231, University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia), Johanna Woodcock Ro, Johanna Woodcock Ross (University of Kent)
Año2024
Volumen47
Número15
Páginas3328-3348
Fecha de publicación2024-11-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2024.2307400
OpenAlexW4391255746
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas55

This paper focusses on unaccompanied migrant young women from Sub-Saharan Africa and the social workers who encounter them in the UK. Taking an intersectional approach, and drawing on notions of black girlhood, it explores how unaccompanied girls may attempt to re-centre their religious identities within diversely religious-spiritual-secular spaces. Drawing on data from research carried out by the first author, the article considers how girls continually adapt their religious practices in new gendered/racialised spaces, and explores the meanings attached to religious practice by social workers and by girls themselves. The paper argues social workers may benefit from resources to develop their religious literacy, and that organisations may benefit from drawing on post-colonial frameworks to critically examine social work responses to black, unaccompanied girls

Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development