Meetoo, veena; Rosen, Rachel; (2024) The Formative Intersections of “Race”, Nation, and Generation: Learning from “Care” in the Lives of Unaccompanied Child Migrants in England. American Behavioral Scientist 10.1177/00027642241268541. (In press).

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In this talk, we explore how ‘race’, nation, and generation make and mark the category of the ‘unaccompanied minor’ in the UK’s border regime and, in so doing, shape their conditions of ‘care’. Drawing on participatory research with young unaccompanied migrants and interviews with adult professionals involved in their care from Children Caring on the Move (ESRC 2019-2023), we consider how ‘unaccompanied minors’ are rendered unchildlike, unknowing, and undeserving via neo-colonial and generational logics of development, civilisation, and normality. These discourses breed inaction from the state and often result in the substandard provision, or even absence, of statutory children’s services for unaccompanied young people. Our analysis offers insights into the ways that ‘race’, nation and generation are made ‘real’ in their everyday enactment, how the subjugation of unaccompanied children roosts in the routine and produces contemporary childhoods in a context of rising ethno-nationalism.

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