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Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers' family life in the Swedish migration context
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sport Science. Linnaeus University, Linnaeus Knowledge Environments, Education in Change. (Centrum för kultursociologi;Social work and migration)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1631-6475
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
2022 (English)In: Families, Relationships and Societies, ISSN 2046-7435, E-ISSN 2046-7443, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 157-174Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Utilising data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork this article investigates (a) how asylum seekers portray family life in relation to their decision to flee their country of origin, and (b) how asylum seekers’ ways of doing family life intersect with the Swedish migration context. Analytically, the article leans on sociologically informed theories of family practices and a conceptual discussion on deportability. The results show how family life among the participants is reconstituted both in terms of geographical closeness and distance, and in terms of ideas about a previous family life in the country of origin and hopes for a possible future in Sweden. The insecurity and the strains placed on people and their family bonds by current migration policies, and the risk of deportation, are interpreted as a specific form of administrative violence that cuts into family practices, serving to maintain physical and emotional distance between family members and break down social bonds. 

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Policy Press, 2022. Vol. 11, no 2, p. 157-174
Keywords [en]
administrative violence, asylum seekers, deportability, ethnography, family life
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Sociology Social Work
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Social Sciences, Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-108734DOI: 10.1332/204674321X16381850636644ISI: 000806767300002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130703309OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-108734DiVA, id: diva2:1622817
Available from: 2021-12-24 Created: 2021-12-24 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved

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