Jessica Schwittek
Biographic Data
| ID | 200415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Schwittek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwittek |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWITTEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1584-2246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Living apart together
Making Friends as Interactional Work
This article focuses on the friendships that young refugees make in Germany as their country of arrival. Although friends are highly relevant in children's lives, little attention has been paid to this subject regarding young refugees. We conducted ego-network interviews with 17 young refugees aged 9-15, with which we explored the opportunity structures in which young refugees choose their friends and their ways of establishing and deepening frie…
Good childhood”
In public debates, transnational families are portrayed as a deviation from the norm of "good childhood." In Europe, this is emphasized by the term "Euro-orphans," branding parents' (especially mothers') absence as a violation and scandalizing it. Children's voices are rarely heard in public discourse, and although research is now turning its attention to the "stayer children," they and their perspectives on transnational family life remain under…
When the Family Occupies the Future – Self-Processes and Well-Being of Kyrgyz Children and Young People
The paper focuses on the question of how young people in the post-Soviet country of Kyrgyzstan deal with the structural and cultural demands of a society characterized by strong obligations of intergenerational solidarity and the normative pattern of submission under the authority of elders. Based on three preponderantly qualitative empirical studies on kindergarten children, teenagers and young adults, young people’s commitment to that order is …
Double Facework
Young children in Kyrgyzstan
This article focuses on preschool children in Kyrgyzstan, a poor country of the former Soviet union. What are children's views on the relational order in this transition society, and what is their contribution to the reproduction or challenging of this order? The authors use and elaborate the theoretical concepts of 'agency' and 'collectivism-individualism' to develop age-appropriate research instruments and to interpret children's views. Data we…
Young children in Kyrgyzstan
This article focuses on preschool children in Kyrgyzstan, a poor country of the former Soviet union. What are children's views on the relational order in this transition society, and what is their contribution to the reproduction or challenging of this order? The authors use and elaborate the theoretical concepts of 'agency' and 'collectivism-individualism' to develop age-appropriate research instruments and to interpret children's views. Data we…
Living apart together
Good childhood”
In public debates, transnational families are portrayed as a deviation from the norm of "good childhood." In Europe, this is emphasized by the term "Euro-orphans," branding parents' (especially mothers') absence as a violation and scandalizing it. Children's voices are rarely heard in public discourse, and although research is now turning its attention to the "stayer children," they and their perspectives on transnational family life remain under…
When the Family Occupies the Future – Self-Processes and Well-Being of Kyrgyz Children and Young People
The paper focuses on the question of how young people in the post-Soviet country of Kyrgyzstan deal with the structural and cultural demands of a society characterized by strong obligations of intergenerational solidarity and the normative pattern of submission under the authority of elders. Based on three preponderantly qualitative empirical studies on kindergarten children, teenagers and young adults, young people’s commitment to that order is …
Young children in Kyrgyzstan
This article focuses on preschool children in Kyrgyzstan, a poor country of the former Soviet union. What are children's views on the relational order in this transition society, and what is their contribution to the reproduction or challenging of this order? The authors use and elaborate the theoretical concepts of 'agency' and 'collectivism-individualism' to develop age-appropriate research instruments and to interpret children's views. Data we…
Double Facework
When the Family Occupies the Future – Self-Processes and Well-Being of Kyrgyz Children and Young People
The paper focuses on the question of how young people in the post-Soviet country of Kyrgyzstan deal with the structural and cultural demands of a society characterized by strong obligations of intergenerational solidarity and the normative pattern of submission under the authority of elders. Based on three preponderantly qualitative empirical studies on kindergarten children, teenagers and young adults, young people’s commitment to that order is …
Good childhood”
In public debates, transnational families are portrayed as a deviation from the norm of "good childhood." In Europe, this is emphasized by the term "Euro-orphans," branding parents' (especially mothers') absence as a violation and scandalizing it. Children's voices are rarely heard in public discourse, and although research is now turning its attention to the "stayer children," they and their perspectives on transnational family life remain under…
Living apart together
Making Friends as Interactional Work
This article focuses on the friendships that young refugees make in Germany as their country of arrival. Although friends are highly relevant in children's lives, little attention has been paid to this subject regarding young refugees. We conducted ego-network interviews with 17 young refugees aged 9-15, with which we explored the opportunity structures in which young refugees choose their friends and their ways of establishing and deepening frie…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (2 works)