Ensamkommande barn som söker asyl som politiska flyktingar är allt mer förekommande. Den mest avgörande perioden för de ensamkommande barnen är den tid då de anländer till Sverige och hur de då tas emot. Den gode mannen är en av de personer som de träffar vid ankomsten och är en viktig och uppskattad person för de ensamkommande barnen. Syftet med denna studie har varit att få en djupare förståelse för vad ensamkommande barn anser vara betydelsefullt i relationen till den gode mannen under asylprocessen. Data har samlats in genom nio semistrukturerade intervjuer. Insamlad data har sedan analyserats genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet har visat att en god relation till den gode mannen är betydelsefull för ensamkommande barn. Det har även framkommit att studiedeltagarna önskar att gode män ska ha tidigare erfarenhet som gode män när de åtar sig ett uppdrag, att den gode mannen bör vara tillgänglig, att denne ska se uppdraget som en mer informell relation samt att de ska fungera som ersättare för förälder/föräldrar. Studien har också visat att emotionellt stöd är betydelsefullt för de ensamkommande barnen. Slutsatsen av denna intervjustudie är att den gode mannen var en betydelsefull person i de ensamkommande barnens liv under asylprocessen där de fick praktiskt stöd men efterfrågade mer emotionellt stöd. Vidare förväntade de sig också att den gode mannen ska vara mer som en vän eller en förälder. / It is increasingly common for unaccompanied minors to seek asylum as political refugees. The most crucial factors for unaccompanied minors are the time they arrive in Sweden and the manner in which they are received. As one of the people they meet on arrival, their legal guardian is both important and appreciated by unaccompanied children. The purpose of this study has been to gain a deeper understanding of what unaccompanied minors consider to be significant in relation to the legal guardian during the asylum process. Data were collected through nine semi-structured interviews of unaccompanied minors. Data were collected through nine semi-structured interviews. These data were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. The results show that a good relationship with the legal guardian is significant for unaccompanied minors. The study found that participants wanted a legal guardian to be available, and for the legal guardian to see the mission as a relationship, to be informal, and to serve as a substitute for a parent/parents. It also emerged that emotional support is important for unaccompanied minors. The conclusion of the interview-based study was that the legal guardian was an important person in the unaccompanied minors’ lives during the asylum process. Besides receiving practical aid, the children asked for emotional support and expected that their legal guardian would be more like a friend or parent.

The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers on a Chief Guardian unit work from their conditions when recruiting guardians. More specifically, we wanted to see how the law, the practise and the professionals’ tacit knowledge affect their judgement of guardians and how the organisation and the government of the Chief Guardian unit affect their work. The Chief Guardian unit is a municipal supervisor that control and supervise the work of the guardian. Media has criticized the Chief Guardian unit, by highlighting examples of unfit guardians. The Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen) has expressed a number of shortcomings of the supervision by the County administrative boards of Sweden (Länsstyrelsen). Because the Chief Guardian units lack a common governmental monitoring, internal solutions are created by every individual unit. In this qualitative study we have tried to understand how the social workers practise their profession. Through semi-structured interviews with eight social workers in three different Chief Guardian units, we have interpreted the views of their work. The theoretical framework was primarily founded on Polanyi´s theory of tacit knowledge and the ideas of occupational and organizational professionalism. The results of our study showed that the reality for the social workers is a mix of occupational and organizational professionalism. All the informants describe their work as heavily controlled by laws and regulations, but with a certain freedom of how to conduct their work. They find the tacit knowledge and the collegial support very important when it comes to assessing guardians. All the informants state that an organizational change is crucial to guarantee the legal security of guardians and caretakers.

<p><strong><em>Sammanfattning</em></strong><strong></strong></p><p>De ensamkommande barnen som kommer till Sverige befinner sig i en utsatt situation. Efter den förste juli 2006 lades ansvaret för barnens boende och omvårdnad på kommunerna efter överenskommelse med migrationsverket. De ensamkommande barnen blir tilldelade en god man, som får ansvaret för barnen i föräldrarnas frånvaro. En av de gode männens uppgift är att företräda barnet i asylprocessen.</p><p>Tidigare forskning som belyser hur mottagningen i en kommun kan se ut, eller hur de vuxna som arbetar med barnen upplever sin situation var svårt att finna. Idag finns främst rapporter från ideella organisationer som exempelvis Rädda Barnen.</p><p>Under hösten 2008 gjordes intervjuer med ansvarig tjänsteman på kommun X, boende personal på ett PUT- boende för ensamkommande barn, samt gode män. Detta för att få en förståelse för hur barnens situation kan se ut i en kommun och hur ansvaret är fördelat mellan berörda parter. Utifrån intervjuerna visade det sig att det saknades klara direktiv och regler mellan de olika instanserna, vilket kan leda till en ostrukturerad tillvaro för de ensamkommande barnen. Vidare framkom att inga formella krav fanns för att bli god man, inte heller någon specifik utbildning innan de går in som vårdnadshavare för de ensamkommande barnen. Detta placerar barnen i ännu en utsatt situation, då de gode männen har tilldelats ansvaret att beakta barnens rättigheter, ekonomi, samt juridiska aspekter. </p><p>Nyckelord: ensamkommande barn, kommunens ansvar, god man, asylprocess</p><p><strong><p> </p></strong></p> / <p><strong><em>Abstract </em></strong></p><p>The unaccompanied children who come to Sweden are in an exposed position. After the first of July 2006 the responsibility for the children's housing and caring lays on the local authority after agreement with immigration authorities. The unaccompanied child gets an allocated good man, which gets the responsibility for the children in the parents' absence. One of the good men's responsibilities is to represent the child in the asylum process.</p><p>Earlier research that elucidates how the reception can looks like in a local authority where difficult to find. How the adult who works with these children experience their situation, where also difficult to find. Today, there are principally reports from non-profit organizations, for example: "save the children" in Sweden.</p><p>During the autumn 2008 interviews were done with a responsible official in local authority X, housing personnel on PUT- living for unaccompanied children, and good men. To be able to get an understanding for how the children's situation can look like in a local authority and how the responsibility is distributed between concerned parties. On the basis of the interviews, it showed clear directives and rules were missing between the different authorities, which can lead to an unstructured life for the unaccompanied children. Furthermore, no formal requirements or other specific education is necessary in order to become a good man and there by make a commitment to get custody for the unaccompanied children. This puts the children in another exposed situation, since the good men have been allocated the responsibility to pay attention to the children's rights, economy, and legal aspects.</p><p>Keywords: unaccompanied children, the local authority, good man, asylum process</p><p> </p>

Sammanfattning De ensamkommande barnen som kommer till Sverige befinner sig i en utsatt situation. Efter den förste juli 2006 lades ansvaret för barnens boende och omvårdnad på kommunerna efter överenskommelse med migrationsverket. De ensamkommande barnen blir tilldelade en god man, som får ansvaret för barnen i föräldrarnas frånvaro. En av de gode männens uppgift är att företräda barnet i asylprocessen. Tidigare forskning som belyser hur mottagningen i en kommun kan se ut, eller hur de vuxna som arbetar med barnen upplever sin situation var svårt att finna. Idag finns främst rapporter från ideella organisationer som exempelvis Rädda Barnen. Under hösten 2008 gjordes intervjuer med ansvarig tjänsteman på kommun X, boende personal på ett PUT- boende för ensamkommande barn, samt gode män. Detta för att få en förståelse för hur barnens situation kan se ut i en kommun och hur ansvaret är fördelat mellan berörda parter. Utifrån intervjuerna visade det sig att det saknades klara direktiv och regler mellan de olika instanserna, vilket kan leda till en ostrukturerad tillvaro för de ensamkommande barnen. Vidare framkom att inga formella krav fanns för att bli god man, inte heller någon specifik utbildning innan de går in som vårdnadshavare för de ensamkommande barnen. Detta placerar barnen i ännu en utsatt situation, då de gode männen har tilldelats ansvaret att beakta barnens rättigheter, ekonomi, samt juridiska aspekter.  Nyckelord: ensamkommande barn, kommunens ansvar, god man, asylprocess / Abstract The unaccompanied children who come to Sweden are in an exposed position. After the first of July 2006 the responsibility for the children's housing and caring lays on the local authority after agreement with immigration authorities. The unaccompanied child gets an allocated good man, which gets the responsibility for the children in the parents' absence. One of the good men's responsibilities is to represent the child in the asylum process. Earlier research that elucidates how the reception can looks like in a local authority where difficult to find. How the adult who works with these children experience their situation, where also difficult to find. Today, there are principally reports from non-profit organizations, for example: "save the children" in Sweden. During the autumn 2008 interviews were done with a responsible official in local authority X, housing personnel on PUT- living for unaccompanied children, and good men. To be able to get an understanding for how the children's situation can look like in a local authority and how the responsibility is distributed between concerned parties. On the basis of the interviews, it showed clear directives and rules were missing between the different authorities, which can lead to an unstructured life for the unaccompanied children. Furthermore, no formal requirements or other specific education is necessary in order to become a good man and there by make a commitment to get custody for the unaccompanied children. This puts the children in another exposed situation, since the good men have been allocated the responsibility to pay attention to the children's rights, economy, and legal aspects. Keywords: unaccompanied children, the local authority, good man, asylum process

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This study illustrates how the power relation between the trustee and principals are experienced and maintained in proportion to the missions design. The main focus lies on understanding of how trustee perceives and applies the mission`s cornerstones and how power can be expressed in the relationship between trustees and principals. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with trustees whose principals were mentally disabled. The interviews were then analyzed with the support of Foucault's concept of discipline, knowledge, control, surveillance and reward/punishment and Tilly's theory of persistent inequality We have obtained an understanding of the complexity of the assignment regarding the mission`s cornerstones who goes into every other, and all respondents agreed that the cornerstones should be considered as a whole. We concluded that the trustee on the basis of the mission's design possesses a power that is necessary and important to have regarding the relation to his principal and its social network. Half of the trustees were well aware of the power they possess; however, all agreed that power is a negatively charged word that not necessarily needs to be operated in the guardianship. We could, based on empirical data, see that the power is used in various ways, both directly and indirectly against their principals and its social networks.

The aim of this study was to examine constructions of the guardianship to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. More specifically its aim was to, through the guardians’ perspective, understand and analyze how they construct the guardianship. The study was based on individual semi-structured interviews with questions concerning the guardianship and the role as a guardian. Seven interview-participants, who are active as guardians in diverse municipalities in southern Sweden, are included in this study. The analysis was based on how the guardians describe the assignments in the guardianship, the unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and their needs and how they describe the relationship to them. As a conclusion we found two different constructions of the guardianship; one characterized by a guardianship based on limits, distance, clarity of role and assignments and a guardian similar to a tutor. The other perspective is characterized by a guardianship based on no limits for assignments, a close and familiar relationship to the children and a guardian similar to a parent or a friend. We found that the guardians are dominated by different types of social actions that affect the guardianship based on how they constructed the guardianship, the unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and the relationship.

Sweden is one of the countries in Europe that has received the highest number of unaccompanied children. Every unaccompanied children who comes to Sweden should get a legal guardian who is responsible for the children’s personal, economic and legal questions. The legal guardian is an important person for the children’s well-being. It is important that the legal guardian is conscious about his role as a legal guardian and that he is following the chief guardian committee’s rules. The legal guardian should for example be conscious that they should not act like a father or mother. The purpose of the study is to get an understanding of which self-presentations the legal guardian is doing in an interaction with me as an interviewer and which presentation he is doing of his role as a legal guardian. The purpose is also to investigate which formal rules and informal rules are directed him into his role as a legal guardian and his actions. The data in the study has been gathered through a qualitative research method and ten interviews are conducted with five female legal guardians and five male legal guardians. The data is analyzed with Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective and how people act when they interacts with the entourage. The results of the study shows that legal guardians are presenting a positive side of themselves. They are presenting themselves as a competent legal guardians. The results also show that the legal guardians are conscious about the Chief guardian committee’s rules at the same time as they are directed by informal rules. The legal guardians are directed by chief guardian committee’s rules, religion-related norms, family-related norms and professional ideals.

Authors: Diana Eliassi Sarzeli &amp; Hajer Lateef Titel: Formerly unaccompanied children’s experiences of the social services’ treatment and reception system Supervisor: Phillip Lalander Assessor: Torbjörn Forkby   The aim of this essay was to study formerly unaccompanied children’s experiences of the social services’ treatment and reception system.  We also studied whether the reception system made it possible or difficult for their opportunities in Sweden. In this study we have completed five qualitative interviews with five formerly unaccompanied children across Sweden. The interviews have had a retrospective element and have been semi-structured. Based on our respondent’s answers from the interviews, it was possible to identify four main themes; social secretary, accommodation, school and legal guardian. We analyzed these themes based on previous research and the selected theory which was symbolic interactionism. The main conclusion we made based on the results of the study was that the formerly unaccompanied children were generally satisfied with the social services’ reception system and its treatment. This despite the fact that criticism was directed towards the social secretaries, the different accommodations and school. The formerly unaccompanied children all experienced that the social services’ reception system has for the most part facilitated their current lives.

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