Dear blog-readers!
Good news for everyone who are interested in reading about my work within the project!
Recently I had my first peer-reviewed article published in Politics. It discusses the political agency of some of the children I met during my fieldwork in the UK. See abstract below.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to discuss my current project of writing about how the political agency of these children, as well as children in Sweden, and the agency of their parents are embedded. I am going to try and show how the rights and struggles of irregularised migrant families are intergenerational… Their struggles need to be understood together, and if we are serious about children’s rights we need to think about how we treat their parents.
Abstract
Drawing on in-depth ethnographic observations among irregularised migrant families in Birmingham, UK, this article discusses how children’s political agency manifests in everyday life. It shows how children who become aware of their legal status as ‘deportable’ reject this subject position and offer their own definitions of who they are and where they belong. Simultaneously, it is argued that children with varying degrees of knowledge about their legal status also express political agency through their struggle to sustain the inclusion they experience. Such expressions highlight the duality of children’s political agency in irregular situations.
http://pol.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/09/06/0263395716665391.abstract
/Jacob Lind, PhD student