Policed empowerment at the intersection of child welfare and migration control

This article aims to show an example of how municipal policy promotes a social work of policing and expulsion, represented as a child welfare. It is legitimated through a therapeutic rationality promoting emotional wellbeing among asylum-seeking minors arriving on their own. The material consists of...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nordic Social Work Research
Main Author: Holmlund, Maline
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för socialt arbete 2021
Subjects:
unaccompanied asylum seeking minors
border policing
social work
governmentality
Sweden
Law and Society
Juridik och samhälle
Political Science
Statsvetenskap
Strömsund
Northern Sweden
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-188470
https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2020.1868554

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