Antalet flyktingar ökar i dagens samhälle och när de anländer till ett nytt land finns det en risk att de berövas nödvändiga eller meningsfulla aktiviteter. Orsaken till att de drabbas av aktivitetsberövning är på grund av olika faktorer som språk, miljö och kultur. Flyktingar är i behov av rätt hjälp och stöd för att kunna klara av vardagen samt eliminera risken för psykisk ohälsa då de flesta har utsatts för trauman innan, under och efter flykten. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att identifiera och beskriva arbetsterapeutiska interventioner för vuxna flyktingar. Metod: En scoping review har använts för att identifiera relevant litteratur kring det valda området. Databaserna AMED, CINHAL, ProQuest och PsycINFO användes. Totalt inkluderades 15 artiklar i resultatet där artiklarna analyserades genom numerisk och tematisk analys. Resultat: I resultatet framkom det att arbetsterapeuten kan arbeta med vuxna flyktingar genom att identifiera meningsfulla aktiviteter som främjar integrationen i samhället, arbeta mot individens självständighet och förbättra ADL-förmågan. Det framkom även att kultur är en viktig aspekt som arbetsterapeuten bör ta hänsyn till vid bemötande med klienten. Slutsats: Slutsatsen påvisar att flyktingar som anländer till ett nytt land är i behov av att kunna delta i meningsfulla aktiviteter. Meningsfulla aktiviteter leder till hälsa och välbefinnande där individen får en känsla av gemenskap och samhörighet. / The number of refugees is increasing in today's society and arriving in a new country tend to fetch up in occupational deprivation. The reason why refugees end up in occupational deprivation is due to various factors, such as environment, culture and language. Refugees are in need of proper help and support to be able to cope with everyday life and eliminate the risk of mental illness as several have been exposed to previous trauma, during and after the escape. Purpose: The aim of the study was to identify and describe occupational therapy interventions for adult refugees. Method: A scoping review has been used to identify relevant literature. The databases AMED, CINHAL, ProQuest and PsycINFO were used. A total of 15 articles were included in the results where the articles were analyzed through numerical and thematic analysis. Result: The results showed that occupational therapists can work with adult refugees by identifying meaningful activities that promote integration into society, work towards the individual's independence and improve ADL ability. It also emerged that culture is an important aspect that the occupational therapist should consider during the rehabilitation. Conclusion: Refugees arriving in a new country are in need of being able to participate in meaningful activities. Meaningful activities lead to health and well-being, where the individual gets a sense of community.

This study examines political engagement among Syrian students at the University of Jordan who are either refugees, asylum seekers or children of Jordanian mothers. By adopting Ekman and Amnå’s conceptualization of political participation and analysing 15 semi-structured interviews, I find that the Syrian students are both engaged in manifest and latent forms of political participation. The engagement is mostly canalised through individual activities rather than collective activities. Most importantly, the engagement is less common in domestic issues than non-domestic issues. When the students are engaged in domestic issues, it is mostly in latent forms of political participation and in private activities not risking revealing their opinions to the general public. Interestingly, I find that the students are interested in Jordan public affairs but that this interest is not transformed into political action aiming to affect Jordanian political decisions. The pattern of political participation in several ways corresponds with the students’ perceptions of risks. The Syrian students associate political engagement in Jordan with perceived risks such as being deported back to Syria or facing racism. Respondents expressed that they were not politically engaged because of the risks that it could entail and engagement in activities connected to Jordan public affairs seems to be perceived as more of a risk compared to being engaged in non-domestic issues. This seems to be particularly true for activities carried out in public. My findings are important as they shed light on political engagement in authoritarian contexts in the Global South and among marginalised non-citizens.

This thesis aims to study how unaccompanied asylum-seeking children navigate through the asylum systems of two European member states, Sweden and France. By using a qualitative approach, five interviews have been conducted in order to study the complex situation of three Afghan young adults, having experienced a rejection to their asylum application in Sweden and who now live in France, engaged together in solidarity work with two European civil society activists and their experiences across these questions. The method used, a narrative analysis, together with theories on citizenship, deportability, and civil society activism helps bring to light how the informants speak about their situation and perceptions of belonging and solidarity. With the European migration policies having become stricter in recent years, this study finds how asylum-seeking migrants have resisted threats of deportability and border control. With civil society activism and solidarity work playing an important role in the migrants supporting themselves, their volunteered engagement can be viewed as crucial when it comes to stepping in with help where the state response has withdrawn, leaving them in a temporary phase and position of clandestinity.

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There are five detention centers in Sweden (in swedish ”förvaret”), were asylum seekers and migrants are held in custody until the Migration Agency has completed their investigation and concluded who are allowed to remain in Sweden and who should return/sent back to their home countries. The detainees are taken into detention centers because the state and authorities are afraid that they will ”go under ground”. This study has been based on the primary empirical data provided by semi-structured interviews. These have then been analysed with a narrative methodology, and in interaction with relevant literature as secondary data. Seven staff members at the detention center in Flen have been interviewed. Erving Goffman´s theory about ”total institutions” and Michael Foucault´s theory about power and its exercise have been used as theoretical basis for the analysis. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the staff members in the detention center in Flen works, how the staff experience their duties and what opportunities there are available for the detainees. The following questions should be answered: (1) How does the staff work in the detention center and how does the interaction between the detainees and the staff look like? (2) How the detention center affects detainees health and what kind of care is available for detainees? (3) What do the staff consider of the criticisms against the detention centers? In summary, the empirical base shows that (1) the staff at the detention center (in Flen) have two different roles, first to help detainees who feel bad or are sick and also to persuade the detainees to cooperate and leave the country voluntarily. The interviewers stated that some of the detainees do not want any contact with the staff, while others are more open to it. (2) The main aim of the staff is to treat the detainees within the walls of the detention center, however, when the resources are insufficient. When more serious problems arise the detainees are offered care outside the detention center. (3) The interviewed staff members held the opinion that the criticism of the detention centers is wrong and unfair. Their conviction was that the lawmakers have decided that these detention centeras are needed and that they trust their decisions, detention centers are part of the asylum process, that the staff only trying fulfill their duties, detention centers are the result of the policy that people voted for in general elections.

Current literature has indicated a concern about standards of maternity care experienced by pregnant asylum seeking women. As the next generation of midwives, it would appear essential that students are educated in a way that prepares them to effectively care for pregnant asylum seekers. Consequently, this study examined the way in which midwifery students constructed a pregnant asylum seeker's health and social needs, the discourses that influenced their constructions and the implications of these findings for midwifery education. For the duration of year two of a pre-registration midwifery programme, eleven midwifery students participated in the study. Two focus group interviews using a problem based learning (PBL) scenario were conducted. In addition, three students were individually interviewed and two students' written reflections on practice were used to construct data. Following a critical discourse analysis, dominant discourses were identified which appeared to influence the way that pregnant asylum seekers were perceived. The findings suggested an underpinning discourse around the asylum seeker as different and of a criminal persuasion. In addition, managerial and medico-scientific discourses were identified, which appeared to influence how midwifery students approach their care of women in general, at the expense of a woman centred, midwifery perspective. The findings from this study were used to develop 'the pregnant woman within the global context' model for midwifery education and it is recommended that this be used in midwifery education, to facilitate the holistic assessment of pregnant asylum seekers' and other newly arrived migrants' health and social needs. / Became: Haith-Cooper, Melanie. Please search under Haith-Cooper for later articles.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how unaccompanied children have contributed to or affected Swedish society, and how society's reception has affected these children in 2015. This study investigates the situation of unaccompanied children in Sweden in 2015, a year marked by an increased flow of asylum seekers and concerns that came with receiving and integrating these children. The project aims to shed light on the complicated variations in reception of unaccompanied children as well as their impact and contribution on Swedish society. The study conducts interviews with unaccompanied children and representatives from Swedish society using qualitative semi-structured interviews.   The result showed that unaccompanied children in 2015 have influenced and contributed to Swedish society. By working, paying taxes and also participating in society's various social systems. It turned out that society has influenced the children both positively and negatively. Freedom affected them positively and authorities such as the Swedish Migration Agency have affected them negatively. Unaccompanied children have shown gratitude to Swedish society despite several shortcomings that existed since their arrival in 2015. The children had been given great opportunities for development such as education, freedom and a safe life.

[pt] Diversos processos nos últimos vinte e cinco anos vêm transformando o entendimento das fronteiras e da mobilidade internacional, com um número cada vez maior de pessoas que se deslocam e de fronteiras que se multiplicam para além dos limites territoriais de cada estado. Ao lado desses processos, que alteram a velocidade do movimento, criam novos caminhos para a circulação e oferecem novas formas de vigilância e bloqueio dos indivíduos, a interpretação das fronteiras começa a ser redefinida buscando dar conta desses novos processos, tanto para facilita-los quanto para proibi-los. Seguindo essas transformações no entendimento das fronteiras e com um histórico de constantes inovações nas políticas migratórias, a Austrália em 2013 adotou a Operation Sovereign Borders, uma operação que abarca diversas dessas transformações. A Operation Sovereign Borders criou e institucionalizou novas práticas de controle da imigração, sendo permeada por uma racionalidade específica do medo da invasão e apoiada em extensas e controversas inovações legislativas. O presente trabalho apresenta as diferentes transformações das fronteiras e suas interpretações, explorando para isso o caso australiano, seu campo de controle de imigração e fronteiras, os atores desse campo, sua legislação, racionalidade e práticas. / [en] Different processes in the last twenty-five years have transformed the understanding of borders and international mobility, with an increasing number of people on the move and borders that multiply beyond the territorial limits of the state. Alongside these processes that alter the speed of movement, create new pathways for circulation and offer new forms of surveillance and blocking of individuals, the interpretation of borders is being redefined seeking to account for these new processes, both to facilitate them and to prohibit them. Following these changes in the understanding of borders and with a history of constant innovations in immigration policies, Australia in 2013 adopted the Operation Sovereign Borders, an operation that encompasses several of these transformations in seeking greater control and by using more violence against asylum seekers. The Operation Sovereign Borders created and institutionalized new immigration control practices, being permeated by a specific rationality of the fear of invasion and supported by extensive and controversial legislative innovations. This dissertation presents the transformations of borders and their interpretations, exploring the Australian case, its field of migration and border control, the actors in this field, its legislative structure, its rationality and practices.

The asylum seekers' integration is a vigorous and multidimensional process for which resolute effort of the both target group and the host society is inevitably entailed. Yet, the findings of this study shows that it is not easily achieved due to certain challenges which should be tackled. This research paper concisely aims to examine how the target group experience integration into the Swedish labor market. The study further seeks to explore how the target group perceives the role of NGOs and thier policies adopted to integrate them into the Swedish labor market in Malmo.Through a sound analysis of the primary and secondary material, this study elucidates the NGOs' role and policies in this field. The findings discovered as a result of this inquiry, noticeably depict that the NGOs, through their different measures and diverse policies, have tried to cope with their humanitarian mission; however, the outcome have been divergent.

Diese Arbeit, die auf persönlichen Erfahrungen als Asylbewerber in Deutschland basiert, fokussiert sich auf die sozioökonomische Integration von schwarzafrikanischen Asylbewerber:innen, d.h. mit einer Aufenthaltserlaubnis nach § 55 des deutschen Asylgesetzes, und von geduldeten Migrant:innen, d.h. mit einem Duldungsstatus nach § 60a des deutschen Aufenthaltsgesetzes. Die Arbeit untersucht ihre Teilnahme an deutschen Integrationskursen und ihren Zugang zu Arbeitserlaubnissen in den sechzehn Bundesländern, die von der Ausländerbehörde und der Bundesagentur für Arbeit streng kontrolliert werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Personen einer wirtschaftlichen Tätigkeit nachgehen, um ihren Lebensunterhalt in Deutschland zu bestreiten als auch um Familienangehörige in ihren Heimatländern zu unterstützen. Methodisch bedient sich die Arbeit eines Methodenmix, der ethno-soziogeographische Instrumente zur Datenerhebung, -verarbeitung und -analyse einsetzt. Zwischen 2016 und Juni 2021 wurden zwanzig Einzelfallstudien, dreihundert halbstrukturierte Fragebögen, sechs Fokusgruppendiskussionen mit der Zielgruppe und deutschen Beamten des Gerichts und der Ausländerbehörde sowie zwei Experteninterviews mit Abgeordneten deutscher Parlamente durchgeführt. Zu den aufgedeckten wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten gehören der Drogenhandel, das Ausliefern von Zeitungen, informeller Streetfood-Verkauf, Friseurhandwerk, der Handel und das Testen auf Corona. Da informelle (illegale, halblegale und kriminelle) Wirtschaftspraktiken als Einstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt und als Reaktion auf die begrenzten Möglichkeiten der deutschen Behörden häufig genutzt werden, schließt die Arbeit mit der Aufforderung an die politischen Entscheidungsträger, den derzeitigen sozioökonomischen Integrationsrahmen für diese beiden Kategorien von Migrant:innen in Deutschland dringend zu überdenken. / This thesis, based on personal experience as an asylum seeker in Germany, focuses on the socio-economic integration of Black African asylum seekers, i.e. with a residence permission § 55 of the German Asylum Act, as well as tolerated migrants, i.e. with a toleration status § 60a German Residence Act. The thesis sheds light on their participation in German integration courses and their access to work permits across the sixteen German states, which are subject to strict regulations by the Foreigner Registration Office and the Federal Office of Work. The findings reveal that individuals engage in economic activities to financially sustain themselves within the territory and also to support family members in their home countries. Methodically, the thesis employs mixed methods, utilizing ethno-sociogeographical tools for data acquisition, processing, and analysis. Between 2016 and June 2021, the thesis conducted twenty individual case studies, three hundred semi-structured questionnaires, two expert interviews with members of German parliaments, six focus group discussions with the target group and German officials from the court, the Foreigner registration office. The economic activities uncovered include drug dealing, newspaper delivery, informal street food selling, hairdressing, trading, and COVID-19 testing. As there is a massive use of informal economic practices (illegal, semi-legal, and criminal) as entry point to the job market and as a response to limited opportunities provided by the German authorities, the thesis concludes with a call to policymakers to urgently reconsider the current socio-economic integration framework for this two categories of migrants in Germany.