Daly, M.;
Smith, M.;
(2021)
‘We need to talk about Bona’: An autoethnographic account of
fostering an unaccompanied asylum seeker.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy
, 10
(1)
pp. 1-13.
10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2021.v10.x.005.
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Abstract
This article offers an account of the authors’ experiences as foster carers for an unaccompanied asylum seeker (and through him, supporting other asylum-seeking boys). We are both qualified and experienced social workers, now social work academics living and working in Scotland, whose practice is informed by socio-pedagogical perspectives. Our backgrounds have given us unique and finely grained insights into the daily care issues facing young asylum seekers set against a backdrop of global movement. We discuss the need to provide care that offers cultural safety; the centrality within this of recognising and seeking to understand religious beliefs and practices; the experiences of young people growing up in conditions of liminality, negotiating two very different cultures; the inadequacy of current social work responses; the importance of everyday care and relationships and the need for a curious and reflexive orientation from caregivers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘We need to talk about Bona’: An autoethnographic account of fostering an unaccompanied asylum seeker |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2021.v10.x.005 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2021.v10.x.0... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021, Maura Daly and Mark Smith. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | foster care, social pedagogy, social work, Muslim, asylum, refugee, unaccompanied, autoethnography, Scotland |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10127523 |
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