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Child language brokering in Swedish welfare institutions: a matter of structural complicity?
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work. (tolk;SWAM;Lnuc Concurrences)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0641-7096
2021 (English)In: Translating asymmetry - rewriting power / [ed] Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés; Esther Monzó-Nebot, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021, p. 125-144Chapter in book (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Abstract [en]

This chapter investigates the asymmetries associated to child language brokering in Swedish welfare institutions. Group interviews with (a) people who have experiences of language brokering as children and (b) public service professionals who have used children as brokers in encounters with non-Swedish speaking service users are analyzed. Results show that both groups consider that resorting to child language brokering is wrong but at the same time they reproduce this social practice and see benefits in it. This ambiguity leads interviewees to lay responsibility on several levels: the parents who place unreasonable demands on their children; the public service professionals who allow children to take on responsibility in precarious situations, and society at large that may be accomplice to structural discrimination of non-Swedish speaking service users. The responsibilities identified by interviewees in their narratives are critically discussed in relation to the concept of structural complicity showing how power relations and social structures create situations where individuals act with complicity even when they do something that they consider to be a good solution for an imperative problem and for which they do not see any alternatives. 

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Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. p. 125-144
Series
Benjamins translation library, ISSN 0929-7316 ; 157
Keywords [en]
child language brokering, health and medical care, interpreting, public service, public service professionals, social services, social work, structural complicity, structural discrimination, Swedish welfare institutions
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International Migration and Ethnic Relations Social Work
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Social Sciences, Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-106243DOI: 10.1075/btl.157.06gusScopus ID: 2-s2.0-85111276048ISBN: 9789027209146 (print)ISBN: 9789027259721 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-106243DiVA, id: diva2:1587451
Available from: 2021-08-24 Created: 2021-08-24 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved

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