WATCH: Mistrust, Care and Child Development - Professor Sarah Crafter

This Public lecture focuses on the dynamic interactions between unaccompanied minors and social care practitioners, by exploring how meaning is made in their interactions.  When unaccompanied minors migrate to a new country to claim asylum, they encounter a range of different professionals whose perspectives on their care can be influenced by their professional roles, the immigration system under which they operate, their personal values, media representations and their understandings of children’s development. Young people also contend with difficult migration journeys, highly challenging immigration and asylum systems, learning a new cultural context and changes in identity as they transition to adulthood.

Drawing on evidence from Children Caring on the Move project, which collected data with both unaccompanied minors and professionals and practitioners, this presentation examines who knows what about whom, and how can misalignments in their relationship lead to a breakdown in trust? In essence, this presentation focuses on identity as a dynamic relationship between the self and the other. 

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