Unaccompanied minors’ in Sweden reflecting on religious faith and practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12601435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Herz (0000-0002-6555-3875, Malmö University, corresponding author), Philip Lalander (0000-0001-9304-2792, Malmö University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1085-1099 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2020.1800612 |
| OpenAlex | W3046624796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
In this article, we listen to young people having arrived in Sweden as unaccompanied minors, in relation to how they talk about and relate to religion, belief and practice. There is still a lack of research focusing on these young people’s own narratives and experiences in their everyday life. This is particularly noteworthy since this category of young people, and especially those with a ‘Muslim heritage’, have received increased attention both in research and in public discourse. For two years, we have ethnographically followed 20 young people with asylum status in Sweden, who all arrived as unaccompanied minors and all came from areas of the world where Islam is the dominant religion. The conclusions are that these young people both need to navigate and are affected by the current political and social context questioning Muslim people, and that this is the case regardless of their own personal relationship to Islam. Further, religious faith needs to be related to its social and emotional embodiments, since it is here religious belief, shifts, changes and resistance, take place. Finally, we discuss how physical, temporal and social distance makes it possible to create other identities, and other ways of being religious or not
Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Everyday life · Faith · Islam · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |