Pockets of love. Unaccompanied children in institutional care in Finland

Iida Kauhanen, Mervi Kaukko and Maija Lanas

Children and Youth Services Review, 2022, vol. 141, issue C

Abstract: This article discusses how needs for loving relationships are met for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Finland. The data was collected through a focused ethnography with 13 unaccompanied children. The findings show that institutional protocols and practices fail to consider the need for love of these children, hindering their possibilities to create or maintain loving relationships. The findings also suggest that new loving ties could be created when individuals invested in them.

Keywords: Unaccompanied children and youth; Love; Institutional care; Asylum seeker; Childhood; Youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106621

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