The aim of the present study is to examine which need´s unaccompanied children in adulthood describe as significant. Furthermore the study aims to examine if the participants experience that they have received the support they need from Örebro Municipality?s unit for unaccompanied children. To answer this, qualitative interviews were conducted with six persons in 20-22 years of age who arrived to Sweden as unaccompanied children four to six years ago. The interviewees are some of the first in the care of the Örebro Municipality?s unit for unaccompanied children.

Syftet med min studie har varit att ta reda på vilka förutsättningar som legat till grund för en lyckad skolgång för pojkar som påbörjat sin andraspråksinlärning och skolgång i Sverige  under högstadieåren. Det har även varit att ta reda på vilka faktorer informanterna själva ser som avgörande för sin skolframgång.I huvudsak har jag använt semistrukturerade intervjuer som kombinerats med ett frågeformulär, det vill säga en metodkombination.Informanterna för enkäten har varit 8 ensamkommande afghanska pojkar som kommit till Sverige i yngre tonåren och informanterna i intervjun har varit tre av dessa som lyckats synnerligen väl med sin skolgång i Sverige.Det mest avgörande resultatet för lyckad skolgång är uppmuntran och stöttning av lärare samt tillgång till bra och tydliggörande läxhjälp. Resultatet i studien visar också att pojkarna som har den mest lyckade skolgången i Sverige minns föräldrarnas förväntan på deras studieframgång. De har en stor drivkraft att vara bäst och att deras skolframgång ska leda till jobb så att de kan ge pengar till släktingar eller andra behövande. .

This study aims to examine how professionals in the field of foster care works with recruitments, assessment and education of family homes for unaccompanied children. The intention is to find out in case there are specific needs that justify specific approach to ensure that the child's best interests are indicative and satisfied. The survey was conducted based on a qualitative method and empirical data gathered through semi-structured interviews with employees in the social services. The result shows that there is a need for more and specific education for families receiving unaccompanied children. It is motivated by the needs and conditions that are often common for this group.

The aim with this essay was that on the basis of the care staff?s interpretations study how the unaccompanied refugee children consider cultural differences in the Swedish society and how it influenced the children. The study was carried out through six qualitative interviews with care workers at a municipal group accommodation for unaccompanied refugee children in the south of Sweden. The individual interviews were semi-structured and built on a list of questions with different subjects that were linked to the aim and question formulation for the essay. The analysis was carried out from Lazarus theory about coping and Antonovsky?s theory about ?SOC?, sense of coherence, with focus on the three components, comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness.

This study is about a guardian ad litem mission, role and relation to unaccompanied children. On the basis of qualitative interviews the study aims to understand the trustees? role and relation to unaccompanied children. We chose to interview nine trustees to achieve a better insight of the trustees roll. We analyzed the interviews and tried to gain a better knowledge about a guardian ad litem mission, role and relationship to unaccompanied children with role theory and concepts off pastoral power and trust.

The aim of this study was to reach an understanding of how young adults with permanent residence permit, who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum seeking minors, experience their confrontation with the Swedish society. Another purpose was to understand how these young adults view Sweden and its inhabitants, as well as the experience of starting a new life in Sweden. In order to investigate these questions, a qualitative method consisting of five interviews with five young men was conducted.The results showed that the respondents feared the meeting with the immigration board and that they feel that school is divided in two groups, Swedes and immigrants. People with nonethnic Swedish background who have lived in Sweden for a long time are seen as Swedes, and in that meaning assimilated. One important conclusion we made was that the division between Swedes and immigrants have a negative influence on the immigrants´ integration in the society.

AbstractMany of the refugees around the world today are children. Some of these children are travelling alone without anyone looking after them. These children flee from their countries to save their lives and as they are children they need special care and protection. This thesis has investigated the protection given to unaccompanied children during the asylum process in the two key instruments in the area: the Convention of the Rights of the Child and the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The Refugee Convention does not contain any procedural rights and does not specifically acknowledge children, even though they are included in the scope of the Convention.

The aim of this study was to understand how staff at residential homes for unaccompanied children experiences their professional role. The main focus of the study was on how the staff defines their professional role and how they handle the situation to be close and at the same time keep a distance towards the children in care. Five women and two men were interviewed at five different residential homes for unaccompanied children. By symbolic interactionism we are able to see that the professional roles are shaped through interaction with the children in care as well as in relation to colleagues. The main role for the staff is to build up a relationship with the children.

Det här är en uppsats i pedagogik om förberedelseklassen, vars syfte är att undersöka om det är positivt eller negativt för invandrar- och flyktingbarn att gå i en förberedelseklass, och även modersmålets påverkan på förberedelseklassen. För att få en inblick i vad en förberedelseklass är börjar uppsatsen med en bakgrundshistoria och fortsätter sedan den med att gå in lite närmare på några områden. Dessa områden är trauma ? krigsupplevelser, den första tiden, överslussningen, modersmålet, samarbete med föräldrarna och lärarrollen. Metoden består av två undersökningar, den första handlar om modersmålsundervisning där fem elever intervjuas i förberedelseklassen och en diskussion med två modersmålslärare.

In recent times the number of children and youth, that have been forced to flee to Sweden due to various circumstances, has increased. The majority of said children and youth seek refuge along with their parents. In recent years, however, the count of this mentioned group, coming separately from their parents, has gradually increased. Children in such situations are called unaccompanied children. A knowledge gap in previous research, regarding the commitment of unaccompanied children, might be filled by neighborhood attentiveness to residential care homes i.e.

Studiens syfte var att undersöka vad som händer med flyktingbarn när de, i vårt fall tillsammans med sina familjer, får uppehållstillstånd i Sverige. Närmare bestämt ville vi undersöka hur dessa barn uppmärksammas och bemöts av flyktingkonsulenter på flyktingenheten. Sker detta utifrån ett barnperspektiv? För att kunna veta om det sker utifrån ett barnperspektiv ansåg vi att det var nödvändigt att först titta på hur begreppet barnperspektiv tolkas i dagens Sverige. För att ta reda på om och hur flyktingkonsulenter arbetar utifrån barnperspektivet ville vi veta vilka konkreta redskap och metoder som motsvarar deras användande av ett barnperspektiv.

Today many separated children and youth up to 18 years - children in the sense of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - flee from war and armed conflicts around the world. Many of them come to Sweden for protection and to apply for asylum.The aim of this study is to examine how the national Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå - TT - constructs the image of separated children and youth. The main research questions have been: How does TT construct the image of the separated refugee children? The more detailed questions put to examine this main question have been: what are the issues being focused in the reporting and what discourses, voices and sources are let into the journalistic material?The theoretical perspective should be considered as social constructionistic where the basic idea is that the image of the separated child also constructs the way society looks upon them, their rights and their needs, affecting how these children will be welcomed and treated when thay arrive in our society. The empirical study is a qualitative analysis of text, produced in the span 2007- April 20th 2010.

In 2006 there was a change in LMA (1994:37) that clarified the division of responsibility be-tween the Migration Board and the municipalities, concerning unaccompanied children. The social services should now be utmost responsible for the housing and care of these children, to assure that they gain the same standards and rights as all other children. The aim of this essay has been to examine how the division of responsibility has influenced the work of the social services and how they interpret their responsibility for the unaccompanied children. How do the social services investigate and make decisions concerning these children? Do these chil-dren have the same rights as other children? To answer these questions a legal study was made, followed by qualitative research interviews with four social services that receive unac-companied children.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera tre gode mäns och Överförmyndarförvaltningens roller i förhållande till ensamkommmande, asylsökande barns rättigheter och behov. Studien fokuserar även på relationen mellan dessa. Utifrån lagar och riktlinjer beskrivs deras relation till tre barnperspektiv. Studien är kvalitativ och baseras på intervjuer med representanter från Överförmyndarförvaltningen och tre av Malmö kommuns sju gode män. Intervjuerna analyseras utifrån dessa perspektiv och tre begrepp.

This study discloses Swedish human service organizations and their methods of integrating unaccompanied children into the Swedish society. The purpose of the study is to investigate how social workers at HVB-homes for unaccompanied children depict their experience in and knowledge of how the unaccompanied children are integrated into Swedish society. The method of investigating the questions raised by the purpose of this thesis has been qualitative analysis of answers derived from interviewing personnel at HVB-homes for unaccompanied children. In doing so we have made use of a semi-structured method of interviewing the above-mentioned personnel. The data derived from these interviews has thereafter been analysed and filtered through the concept of integration and the theoretical formations human service organizations and street-level bureaucrats.