 Dealing with the past in the transition from care. A post-structural analysis of young people's accountsElisabeth Fransson and Jan Storø Children and Youth Services Review, 2011, vol. 33, issue 12, 2519-2525 Abstract: Young people experiencing the transition from care often are weighed down by their past, both through their early experiences, but also by the way their past is made relevant in encounters with others. The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, to present a critical discursive analysis of young people's accounts of themselves in the transition from care. Secondly, to shed light on three different ways of making the transition from care; transition through a break with the past after moving out, transition through continuing change and transition as a way of dealing with the risk of further problems in their lives. The study is qualitative and includes 27 young women and men recruited from three child welfare institutions in the Oslo region of Norway. A multi-method approach including interviews, observations and documents has been used. The analytical framework is inspired by poststructuralist theory.11The article is based on Elisabeth Franssons doctoral thesis in sociology at University of Oslo: Fransson (2009). Keywords: Transition from care; Young people; Self work; Residential child welfare institutions; Post-structural analysis; Michel Foucault (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:33:y:2011:i:12:p:2519-2525 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.08.021 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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