Caringscapes and belonging

An intersectional analysis of care relationships of unaccompanied minors in Belgium

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ID12710756
AuthorsK De Graeve (0000-0002-6177-390X, Ghent University, corresponding author), Christof Bex (Ghent University)
Year2016
Volume15
Issue1
Pages80-92
Publication date2016-11-13
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildren s Geographies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1473-3277 • E-ISSN: 1473-3285
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14733285.2016.1254727
OpenAlexW2553517988
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited26

Through testimonies of guardians and young adults looking back upon their lives as unaccompanied minors in Belgium, this paper aims to obtain better understanding of the multifaceted and simultaneous intersections that shape the unaccompanied minors’ care relationships. It claims that while age as a criterion for the entitlement to care might work as an enabling structural element in the care trajectories of unaccompanied minors, the young people’s intersectional positioning as both minor and immigrant translates into a minimalistic and bureaucratic apparatus of care that often fails to accommodate the young people’s actual needs. The paper aims to explore what a focus on care relationships can offer in light of the prevalent emphasis in policy on equal rights, rationality and equal opportunities and argues that an intersectional focus on affect and relationships might need us to reconsider assumptions of just care in greater depth

Affect (linguistics · Bureaucracy · Care work · Criminology · Economics · Entitlement (fair division · Focus (optics · Immigration · Political science · Rationality · Sociology · Work (physics · Children's Rights and Participation · Family Support in Illness · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology

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