“You hold your life in your hands until you arrive in another country”

Young Afghans seeking onward mobility from Greece

Bibliographic Data

ID18980200
AuthorsMoa Nyamwathi Lønning (0000-0002-4577-5606, Department of Social Work and Guidance, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, INN University – Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume47
Issue4
Pages874-894
Publication date2024-03-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2023.2219325
OpenAlexW4382583939
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

This article considers the interplay between mobility and immobility in the everyday lives of young people on the move. It looks at the ways interactions with and categorisations by protection structures and restrictive border and migration regimes lead to diverse trajectories. The article is based on research with young men from Afghanistan mostly classified as unaccompanied minors. Some of the young men were seeking to continue their journeys from Greece and others had managed and had arrived in Norway. The young people’s trajectories were marked by uneven rhythms and multiple forms of movement and stasis with various effects on the body and the intimate. Whether they were categorised as accompanied or unaccompanied children or as adults also governed their spatiotemporal mobility and led to different, partly contradictory, temporalities. Moreover, imagination, desire, and conditions endured in the places they had left and moved through interacted and encouraged onward mobility

Criminology · Everyday life · Political science · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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