Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg, Sweden.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2020 Dec;15(sup2):1724757. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2020.1724757.
: The paper exames notions of health and wellbeing in the context of radically retracted rights to political asylum. It questions the tendency in previous research to regard the political economy of refugee protection as a parallel issue to a range of factors affecting children's health. : Based on ethnographic research with 19 undocumented refugee children in Sweden, the paper illustrates ways in which the deportation regime conditions participants' health. : Findings show that children lived with precarious status for the better part of their childhoods, alternating between undocumented and asylum seeking statuses. Participants accessed formal rights to education and health through complete or relative strangers at risk of exposure to authorities. The paper argues that conceptualisations of refugee children's suffering in terms of risk and protective factors are redundant in this context. Moreover, deportability, protracted refugee situations and deprived material conditions are not unique to undocumented refugees, but characterise most refugee children's lives in welfare states today. : In relation to the plight of the refugee child, wellbeing seems to refer to an abstract ontology of desirable states of the human experience, far removed from the real day-to-day lives of individuals shaped by social suffering and structural violence.
: 本文在基本人权被彻底剥夺的背景下探讨了健康和福祉的概念。文中质疑了先前研究中将难民保护的政治经济视为一系列影响儿童健康因素的平行问题的倾向。 : 本文基于对瑞典 19 名无证难民儿童的民族志研究，说明了驱逐制度是如何影响参与者健康的。 : 研究结果表明，这些儿童在童年的大部分时间里都处于不稳定的身份状态，在无证和寻求庇护身份之间交替。参与者通过完全或相对陌生的人获得了正式的受教育和健康权利，但这些人可能会面临被当局曝光的风险。本文认为，在这种情况下，将难民儿童的苦难概念化为风险和保护因素是多余的。此外，可驱逐性、旷日持久的难民状况和贫困的物质条件并非无证难民所独有，而是当今福利国家大多数难民儿童生活的特征。 : 就难民儿童的困境而言，福祉似乎是指人类体验中理想状态的抽象本体论，与受社会苦难和结构性暴力塑造的个人的现实日常生活相去甚远。
