The Impact of Temporary Residence Permits on Young Refugees' Abilities to Build a Life in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5934545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Lind (0000-0002-3811-0892, Malmö University, corresponding author), C Hansen (0000-0002-1029-4132, Malmö University), Nadeen Khoury (0000-0001-5193-0177, Malmö University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 143 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci12030143 |
| OpenAlex | W4322771970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 27 |
Drawing on interviews with young refugees, 20-30 years old, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, we discuss the effects that temporary residence permits have on their ability to build a life in Sweden. The article includes both unaccompanied and accompanied youth that at some point had been given temporary residence permits. These permits could later be renewed or turned into permanent permits if the youth fulfilled certain tough requirements. Through rich empirical data, we show how these temporal techniques of border control keep young refugees in a state where they fear deportation, which have detrimental effects for their ability to build a life in Sweden. They are not able to plan ahead and they feel forced to work although they would have preferred to study, which puts them out of sync with other young people around them, challenges their sense of agency and increases their vulnerability. Temporary residence permits severely limit the life opportunities of young refugees in Sweden, and thus hamper their ability to achieve the "migrant integration" that is expected of them
Agency (philosophy · Computer security · Demographic economics · Deportation · Economics · Immigration · Political science · Refugee · Residence · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology
Applied Thematic Analysis
Luxury limbo
Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality
Why Things Matter to People
Migrants and Swedish Activists in Solidarity
Vulnerability and agency
Beyond compartmentalization
Junk Science? Four Arguments against the Radiological Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum
Permanent or temporary settlement? A study on the short-term effects of residence status on refugees’ labour market participation
Against ‘immigrant integration’
Resisting social death with dignity. The strategy of re-escaping among young asylum-seekers in the wake of Sweden’s sharpened asylum laws
Employment Niches for Recent Refugees
Linking Migration Aspirations to Integration Prospects
Time and the Migrant Other
Pull up the roots
Where's the Harm in That? Immigration Enforcement, Trafficking, and the Protection of Migrants' Rights
Across the threshold
Governing vulnerabilised migrant childhoods through children's rights
Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life
Swedish Reception of Unaccompanied Refugee Children-Promoting Integration
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |