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The management of time and waiting by unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls in Finland

  • Ravi Kohli
    ,
  • Mervi Kaukko
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Abstract

This article considers how asylum-seeking girls in residential care in Finland construct their everyday lives while waiting for asylum outcomes. These girls, from various African countries, are shown to experience waiting as both debilitating and productive. First, our findings confirm the established picture of asylum-seeking young people being in limbo, unable to influence the resolution of their claims. Second, we explore more hopeful ways in which they wait. We emphasize the complex responses and relationships they build in waiting times with each other and their carers. We suggest that waiting is not just ‘dead’ time, but is also lively in periods of uncertainty.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 488-506

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Journal of Refugee Studies (Volume 31, Issue 4)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 07/12/2017

Publication status

Published - 07/12/2017

ISSN

0951-6328

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622851
  • Scopus: 85052007240

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