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Relational wellbeing in the lives of young refugees

  • Ravi Kohli
    ,
  • Marta Knag Fylkesnes
    ,
  • Mervi Kaukko
    ,
  • Sarah C. White
Research Output: Book/Report Edited book Peer-review

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Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Abstract

This book is a Special Issue Reprint. In it we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular. We mainly focus on the lives of young adults who came to the global North as unaccompanied children—that is, without an adult responsible for them when they claimed asylum. Many of the papers report from the Drawing Together project (see https://www.drawingtogetherproject.org/, accessed on 11 January 2024). The project focus is on ‘relational wellbeing’ for young refugees—that is, wellbeing that is experienced through actions that repair and amplify a sense of responsibility they and other people have to each other. Hospitality and reciprocity emerge through small acts of fellowship. In time, these build patterns of exchanges between young refugees and those important to them, leading to a mutual sense of ‘having enough’, ‘being connected’, and ‘feeling good’ (White and Jha 2020). This is wellbeing as a shared endeavour. Overall, the project and many contributions in this Special Issue stand at the conjunction between fields of research into wellbeing and refugee studies. The papers span contexts and countries, offering a sense of an international array of experiences, joined by an issue of supra-national importance—that is, the ways interaction and relationality mediate the experiences of becoming and being a refugee.

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Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Edited book Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 29/02/2024

Publication status

Published - 29/02/2024

Place of publication

Basel

Publisher

MDPI

Publication series

  • Publication series name: Childhood and Youth Studies

ISBN (Print)

9783725803071

ISBN (Electronic)

9783725803088

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626202

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