War and challenges for contemporary criminology [Elektronisk resurs] an ethnography-inspired analysis of the narratives of unaccompanied young refugees with war experiences in institutional care in Sweden

• This study concerns young people who have experienced war, taken shelter in Sweden, and been placed in institutions. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze power relations that contribute to the shaping of young people’s identities and repertoires of action via stigmatizations and social comparisons with different reference groups. The study’s empirical material includes qualitatively oriented interviews with six young people from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan who have experienced war followed by placement in institutional care in Sweden. Analytical findings with the following themes are presented: (1) power relations and war, (2) power relations and escape from war, and (3) power relations and post war. The narratives on war and flight recounted by unaccompanied refugee minors describe the exercise of power in practice, in which wartime interactions (based on the exercise of power) are compared and related to peaceful interactions (in which there is no exercise of power). In this context, the interactive creation of contrasts and comparisons in relation to other actors reveals various categories of actor: victim, perpetrator, and hero. 

Ämnesord

Social Sciences  (ssif)

Sociology  (ssif)

Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)  (ssif)

Samhällsvetenskap  (ssif)

Sociologi  (ssif)

Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi)  (ssif)

Other Social Sciences  (ssif)

International Migration and Ethnic Relations  (ssif)

Annan samhällsvetenskap  (ssif)

Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER)  (ssif)

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary  (ssif)

Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap  (ssif)

Sociology  (lnu)

Sociologi  (lnu)

Social Psychology  (lnu)

Socialpsykologi  (lnu)

Socialt arbete  (lnu)

Social Work  (lnu)

Kriminologi  (lnu)

Criminology  (lnu)

Social Pedagogy  (lnu)

Socialpedagogik  (lnu)

Genre

government publication  (marcgt)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

symbolic interaction

ethnomethodology

social construction

interactive ritual

social comparison

humiliated self

stigma

disruptive peaceful interaction

disruptive non-power-based interaction

wartime exercise of power