Ravi K S Kohli
Biographic Data
| ID | 3558326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravi K S Kohli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravi K S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohli |
| SIGNATURE | KOHLI R K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5713-8922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Forced Migration
In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular
Drawing Together in Scotland
In this paper, we consider how young refugees in the Drawing Together project experience integration in Scotland. We critically examine the term 'refugee integration' and emphasise its multiple dimensions. Specifically, we analyse Scotland's role as a country committed to the protection and care of young refugees by mapping some key Scottish legal, political, social and cultural policies and strategies that provide the contexts for refugee integr…
Conceptualising and measuring levels of risk by immigration status for children in the UK
Extensive evidence exists on how characteristics and circumstances of children shape their lifepaths and outcomes, and on the scale of resulting need. However, little research exists assessing the numbers of children who may be at risk of harm or disadvantage due to their immigration status. In this paper, we sought to establish the degree to which it is possible to monitor the aggregate vulnerability to risk of children in the UK by virtue of im…
Memories, Mementos, and Memorialization of Young Unaccompanied Afghans Navigating within Europe
This article considers memories, mementos, and memorialization in stories by unaccompanied young people and their journeys within Europe. It looks at their ‘navigation’ of remembering and forgetting and how this intertwines with movement and stillness. It is based on a study about Afghan males aged 15–24 years in Norway and Greece. Participants differed in terms of their backgrounds, migration projects, and their legal status. In their various ci…
The Management of Time and Waiting by Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Girls in Finland
This article considers how asylum-seeking girls in residential care in Finland construct their everyday lives while waiting for asylum outcomes. These girls, from various African countries, are shown to experience waiting as both debilitating and productive. First, our findings confirm the established picture of asylum-seeking young people being in limbo, unable to influence the resolution of their claims. Second, we explore more hopeful ways in …
Protecting Asylum Seeking Children on the Move
This paper considers the ways that children seeking asylum can be assisted to make sense of movement in their lives as forced migrants, and to find a sense of “home” in a foreign country after arrival, even if their stay in that country is temporary. It explores the proposition that movement happens in three dimensions – as geographical displacement, as the passage of time, and as psychological and maturational change. While acknowledging the uti…
Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care
There is little in the existing literature in refugee studies, foster care and the anthropology of food about the ways refugee and asylum seeking children regard food. This piece reports on two initiatives that delineate ways children seeking asylum and their carers understand food. The first is a research study examining unaccompanied asylum seeking children's perception of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, within which t…
Child Welfare Services for Minority Ethnic Families
The comfort of strangers
Unaccompanied children and young people seeking sanctuary as political refugees are increasingly visible within many industrialized nations, where several studies confirm their vulnerability and needs. These studies also highlight what appears to be the poor quality of social work services and practices that these minors encounter. This paper examines some of the details contained in such reports of deficiency and seeks to place them within a mor…
The Sound Of Silence
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are noted at times to be silent or circumspect about their origins and circumstances when faced with authority figures, including social workers. Using some key ideas from ethnography and narrative therapy, this article examines existing literature on silence in the lives of unaccompanied minors, and on how the choices they make about talking and not talking can hinder or facilitate resettlement. It then desc…
Promoting psychosocial well‐being in unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the United Kingdom
Unaccompanied minors looking for asylum in industrialized nations come with a host of psychosocial needs associated with separation and settlement. They are also resourceful, and willing to make the best of themselves in their new environments. This paper reviews literature concerning vulnerability and resilience that has emerged from refugee related studies, and those from social work with children looked after by local authorities. In combining…
The Sound Of Silence
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are noted at times to be silent or circumspect about their origins and circumstances when faced with authority figures, including social workers. Using some key ideas from ethnography and narrative therapy, this article examines existing literature on silence in the lives of unaccompanied minors, and on how the choices they make about talking and not talking can hinder or facilitate resettlement. It then desc…
The Management of Time and Waiting by Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Girls in Finland
This article considers how asylum-seeking girls in residential care in Finland construct their everyday lives while waiting for asylum outcomes. These girls, from various African countries, are shown to experience waiting as both debilitating and productive. First, our findings confirm the established picture of asylum-seeking young people being in limbo, unable to influence the resolution of their claims. Second, we explore more hopeful ways in …
The comfort of strangers
Unaccompanied children and young people seeking sanctuary as political refugees are increasingly visible within many industrialized nations, where several studies confirm their vulnerability and needs. These studies also highlight what appears to be the poor quality of social work services and practices that these minors encounter. This paper examines some of the details contained in such reports of deficiency and seeks to place them within a mor…
Promoting psychosocial well‐being in unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the United Kingdom
Unaccompanied minors looking for asylum in industrialized nations come with a host of psychosocial needs associated with separation and settlement. They are also resourceful, and willing to make the best of themselves in their new environments. This paper reviews literature concerning vulnerability and resilience that has emerged from refugee related studies, and those from social work with children looked after by local authorities. In combining…
Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care
There is little in the existing literature in refugee studies, foster care and the anthropology of food about the ways refugee and asylum seeking children regard food. This piece reports on two initiatives that delineate ways children seeking asylum and their carers understand food. The first is a research study examining unaccompanied asylum seeking children's perception of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, within which t…
Protecting Asylum Seeking Children on the Move
This paper considers the ways that children seeking asylum can be assisted to make sense of movement in their lives as forced migrants, and to find a sense of “home” in a foreign country after arrival, even if their stay in that country is temporary. It explores the proposition that movement happens in three dimensions – as geographical displacement, as the passage of time, and as psychological and maturational change. While acknowledging the uti…
Memories, Mementos, and Memorialization of Young Unaccompanied Afghans Navigating within Europe
This article considers memories, mementos, and memorialization in stories by unaccompanied young people and their journeys within Europe. It looks at their ‘navigation’ of remembering and forgetting and how this intertwines with movement and stillness. It is based on a study about Afghan males aged 15–24 years in Norway and Greece. Participants differed in terms of their backgrounds, migration projects, and their legal status. In their various ci…
Forced Migration
In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular
Drawing Together in Scotland
In this paper, we consider how young refugees in the Drawing Together project experience integration in Scotland. We critically examine the term 'refugee integration' and emphasise its multiple dimensions. Specifically, we analyse Scotland's role as a country committed to the protection and care of young refugees by mapping some key Scottish legal, political, social and cultural policies and strategies that provide the contexts for refugee integr…
Conceptualising and measuring levels of risk by immigration status for children in the UK
Extensive evidence exists on how characteristics and circumstances of children shape their lifepaths and outcomes, and on the scale of resulting need. However, little research exists assessing the numbers of children who may be at risk of harm or disadvantage due to their immigration status. In this paper, we sought to establish the degree to which it is possible to monitor the aggregate vulnerability to risk of children in the UK by virtue of im…
Child Welfare Services for Minority Ethnic Families
Promoting psychosocial well‐being in unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the United Kingdom
Unaccompanied minors looking for asylum in industrialized nations come with a host of psychosocial needs associated with separation and settlement. They are also resourceful, and willing to make the best of themselves in their new environments. This paper reviews literature concerning vulnerability and resilience that has emerged from refugee related studies, and those from social work with children looked after by local authorities. In combining…
The comfort of strangers
Unaccompanied children and young people seeking sanctuary as political refugees are increasingly visible within many industrialized nations, where several studies confirm their vulnerability and needs. These studies also highlight what appears to be the poor quality of social work services and practices that these minors encounter. This paper examines some of the details contained in such reports of deficiency and seeks to place them within a mor…
The Sound Of Silence
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are noted at times to be silent or circumspect about their origins and circumstances when faced with authority figures, including social workers. Using some key ideas from ethnography and narrative therapy, this article examines existing literature on silence in the lives of unaccompanied minors, and on how the choices they make about talking and not talking can hinder or facilitate resettlement. It then desc…
Child Welfare Services for Minority Ethnic Families
Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care
There is little in the existing literature in refugee studies, foster care and the anthropology of food about the ways refugee and asylum seeking children regard food. This piece reports on two initiatives that delineate ways children seeking asylum and their carers understand food. The first is a research study examining unaccompanied asylum seeking children's perception of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, within which t…
Protecting Asylum Seeking Children on the Move
This paper considers the ways that children seeking asylum can be assisted to make sense of movement in their lives as forced migrants, and to find a sense of “home” in a foreign country after arrival, even if their stay in that country is temporary. It explores the proposition that movement happens in three dimensions – as geographical displacement, as the passage of time, and as psychological and maturational change. While acknowledging the uti…
The Management of Time and Waiting by Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Girls in Finland
This article considers how asylum-seeking girls in residential care in Finland construct their everyday lives while waiting for asylum outcomes. These girls, from various African countries, are shown to experience waiting as both debilitating and productive. First, our findings confirm the established picture of asylum-seeking young people being in limbo, unable to influence the resolution of their claims. Second, we explore more hopeful ways in …
Conceptualising and measuring levels of risk by immigration status for children in the UK
Extensive evidence exists on how characteristics and circumstances of children shape their lifepaths and outcomes, and on the scale of resulting need. However, little research exists assessing the numbers of children who may be at risk of harm or disadvantage due to their immigration status. In this paper, we sought to establish the degree to which it is possible to monitor the aggregate vulnerability to risk of children in the UK by virtue of im…
Memories, Mementos, and Memorialization of Young Unaccompanied Afghans Navigating within Europe
This article considers memories, mementos, and memorialization in stories by unaccompanied young people and their journeys within Europe. It looks at their ‘navigation’ of remembering and forgetting and how this intertwines with movement and stillness. It is based on a study about Afghan males aged 15–24 years in Norway and Greece. Participants differed in terms of their backgrounds, migration projects, and their legal status. In their various ci…
Drawing Together in Scotland
In this paper, we consider how young refugees in the Drawing Together project experience integration in Scotland. We critically examine the term 'refugee integration' and emphasise its multiple dimensions. Specifically, we analyse Scotland's role as a country committed to the protection and care of young refugees by mapping some key Scottish legal, political, social and cultural policies and strategies that provide the contexts for refugee integr…
Forced Migration
In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular
Political science (11 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Immigration (4 works)