Marita Eastmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 146538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marita Eastmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marita |
| FAMILY NAME | Eastmond |
| SIGNATURE | EASTMOND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6693-0006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Assertions and aspirations
Research on asylum-seeking children tends to disregard those in parental care. In particular, little is known about children’s own perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden, this article explores the ways in which accompanied children experience and seek to overcome challenges posed by asylum reception. The focus is on children’s ambition and ability to form their everyday life, given their ambiguous position of tentative emplacemen…
Refugees in Anthropology
Betwixt and Between
This study explores the sense of possibility as perceived by asylum-seeking children in Sweden in relation to education. An ethnographic approach brought out children's own perspectives and motivations, and the hopes they pinned to attending school. It was found that the meaning of school related to children's need of structure, a sense of belonging and a learning environment. However, their hopefulness was conditioned by their uncertain status a…
In the Best Interest of the Child? The Politics of Vulnerability and Negotiations for Asylum in Sweden
This article concerns the interplay between government policy and practice and refugee children's welfare as these issues have been brought to the fore in public debate and controversy in the recent past in Sweden. Framed by the tension between immigration law and human rights conventions such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), incidences of ill-health and suffering among asylum-seeking children have both spurred public concer…
Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference
This article addresses the experiences of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina who settled in Sweden in the early 1990s, at a time when asylum and welfare became highly politicised issues. Two main areas of critical concern emerged in policy-making and public debate in this period, one relating to the control of external borders, the other relating to the incorporation of new residents. The article outlines the representations of ‘refugees’ that beca…
Transnational Returns and Reconstruction in Post‐war Bosnia and Herzegovina
The return of refugees and displaced persons has been a strong priority in the international commitment to reverse “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war. Return and reintegration of refugees as a durable solution in profoundly changed and uncertain conditions are rarely unproblematic, and in Bosnia the sustainability of such returns, especially minority returns, remains of great concern. This article examines the strategies o…
Transitions, state building and the ‘residual’ refugee problem
Observing recent returns of Afghan refugees from Iran, Ruud Lubbers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, stated to journalists that he was now 'High Commissioner for Returnees'. Since the mid-1980s refugee repatriation has been a cornerstone in the international management of forced migration emergencies. This article considers and compares two major repatriation operations, of Cambodian refugees from Thailand in the early 1990s, an…
Nationalist Discourses and the Construction of Difference
This article explores practices and discourses that shape and articulate refugees' lives and identities, with a particular focus on a community of Bosnian Muslim refugees in Sweden. The dynamics through which cultural distinctiveness and ethnic boundaries emerge as legitimate and essential is seen through the lens of different frameworks of nationalist thought about culture, place and identity, linking institutions and discourses in postwar Bosni…
Luchar y sufrir- Stories of life and exile
This paper presents in condensed form the life stories of two refugees, a man and a woman from El Salvador. The aim of collecting these and other stories has been to explore how refugees themselves make sense of the turbulent changes that war and exile force upon them. It is a way to understand political conflict and displacement through the people who live them, but also to explore the diversity of experience behind the generalised notion of 'th…
Transnational Returns and Reconstruction in Post‐war Bosnia and Herzegovina
The return of refugees and displaced persons has been a strong priority in the international commitment to reverse “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war. Return and reintegration of refugees as a durable solution in profoundly changed and uncertain conditions are rarely unproblematic, and in Bosnia the sustainability of such returns, especially minority returns, remains of great concern. This article examines the strategies o…
In the Best Interest of the Child? The Politics of Vulnerability and Negotiations for Asylum in Sweden
This article concerns the interplay between government policy and practice and refugee children's welfare as these issues have been brought to the fore in public debate and controversy in the recent past in Sweden. Framed by the tension between immigration law and human rights conventions such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), incidences of ill-health and suffering among asylum-seeking children have both spurred public concer…
Nationalist Discourses and the Construction of Difference
This article explores practices and discourses that shape and articulate refugees' lives and identities, with a particular focus on a community of Bosnian Muslim refugees in Sweden. The dynamics through which cultural distinctiveness and ethnic boundaries emerge as legitimate and essential is seen through the lens of different frameworks of nationalist thought about culture, place and identity, linking institutions and discourses in postwar Bosni…
Betwixt and Between
This study explores the sense of possibility as perceived by asylum-seeking children in Sweden in relation to education. An ethnographic approach brought out children's own perspectives and motivations, and the hopes they pinned to attending school. It was found that the meaning of school related to children's need of structure, a sense of belonging and a learning environment. However, their hopefulness was conditioned by their uncertain status a…
Assertions and aspirations
Research on asylum-seeking children tends to disregard those in parental care. In particular, little is known about children’s own perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden, this article explores the ways in which accompanied children experience and seek to overcome challenges posed by asylum reception. The focus is on children’s ambition and ability to form their everyday life, given their ambiguous position of tentative emplacemen…
Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference
This article addresses the experiences of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina who settled in Sweden in the early 1990s, at a time when asylum and welfare became highly politicised issues. Two main areas of critical concern emerged in policy-making and public debate in this period, one relating to the control of external borders, the other relating to the incorporation of new residents. The article outlines the representations of ‘refugees’ that beca…
Transitions, state building and the ‘residual’ refugee problem
Observing recent returns of Afghan refugees from Iran, Ruud Lubbers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, stated to journalists that he was now 'High Commissioner for Returnees'. Since the mid-1980s refugee repatriation has been a cornerstone in the international management of forced migration emergencies. This article considers and compares two major repatriation operations, of Cambodian refugees from Thailand in the early 1990s, an…
Luchar y sufrir- Stories of life and exile
This paper presents in condensed form the life stories of two refugees, a man and a woman from El Salvador. The aim of collecting these and other stories has been to explore how refugees themselves make sense of the turbulent changes that war and exile force upon them. It is a way to understand political conflict and displacement through the people who live them, but also to explore the diversity of experience behind the generalised notion of 'th…
Luchar y sufrir- Stories of life and exile
This paper presents in condensed form the life stories of two refugees, a man and a woman from El Salvador. The aim of collecting these and other stories has been to explore how refugees themselves make sense of the turbulent changes that war and exile force upon them. It is a way to understand political conflict and displacement through the people who live them, but also to explore the diversity of experience behind the generalised notion of 'th…
Nationalist Discourses and the Construction of Difference
This article explores practices and discourses that shape and articulate refugees' lives and identities, with a particular focus on a community of Bosnian Muslim refugees in Sweden. The dynamics through which cultural distinctiveness and ethnic boundaries emerge as legitimate and essential is seen through the lens of different frameworks of nationalist thought about culture, place and identity, linking institutions and discourses in postwar Bosni…
Transitions, state building and the ‘residual’ refugee problem
Observing recent returns of Afghan refugees from Iran, Ruud Lubbers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, stated to journalists that he was now 'High Commissioner for Returnees'. Since the mid-1980s refugee repatriation has been a cornerstone in the international management of forced migration emergencies. This article considers and compares two major repatriation operations, of Cambodian refugees from Thailand in the early 1990s, an…
Transnational Returns and Reconstruction in Post‐war Bosnia and Herzegovina
The return of refugees and displaced persons has been a strong priority in the international commitment to reverse “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war. Return and reintegration of refugees as a durable solution in profoundly changed and uncertain conditions are rarely unproblematic, and in Bosnia the sustainability of such returns, especially minority returns, remains of great concern. This article examines the strategies o…
In the Best Interest of the Child? The Politics of Vulnerability and Negotiations for Asylum in Sweden
This article concerns the interplay between government policy and practice and refugee children's welfare as these issues have been brought to the fore in public debate and controversy in the recent past in Sweden. Framed by the tension between immigration law and human rights conventions such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), incidences of ill-health and suffering among asylum-seeking children have both spurred public concer…
Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference
This article addresses the experiences of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina who settled in Sweden in the early 1990s, at a time when asylum and welfare became highly politicised issues. Two main areas of critical concern emerged in policy-making and public debate in this period, one relating to the control of external borders, the other relating to the incorporation of new residents. The article outlines the representations of ‘refugees’ that beca…
Betwixt and Between
This study explores the sense of possibility as perceived by asylum-seeking children in Sweden in relation to education. An ethnographic approach brought out children's own perspectives and motivations, and the hopes they pinned to attending school. It was found that the meaning of school related to children's need of structure, a sense of belonging and a learning environment. However, their hopefulness was conditioned by their uncertain status a…
Refugees in Anthropology
Assertions and aspirations
Research on asylum-seeking children tends to disregard those in parental care. In particular, little is known about children’s own perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden, this article explores the ways in which accompanied children experience and seek to overcome challenges posed by asylum reception. The focus is on children’s ambition and ability to form their everyday life, given their ambiguous position of tentative emplacemen…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)