When generalized assumptions of young refugees don’t hold

Rethinking ascriptions and subjectivations through an intersectional lens

Bibliographic Data

ID12760117
AuthorsLaura Otto (0000-0001-6381-1351, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author), Margrit E Kaufmann (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Year2019
Volume29
Issue1-3
Pages136-153
Publication date2019-12-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1531-3204 • E-ISSN: 1531-3212
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15313204.2019.1696725
OpenAlexW2993864543
LanguageEN
References cited19

Young male refugees are denoted, represented and grouped, both in public discourse and in social work, in socially constructed categories. To avoid the reproduction of these ascriptions, we engage in “shared reading” of ethnographic data in an intersectional manner. This approach helps to highlight ambiguities and practices of the production of differences beyond both legal frameworks and the dominant discourse on refugees. Social work can benefit from this approach as it helps to identify complex and individual needs of young refugees, thereby aiming at a treatment of young refugees not based on generalizing and homogenizing assumptions

Criminology · Ethnography · Political science · Reading (process · Refugee · Reproduction · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice

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