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      ‘We need to talk about Bona’: An autoethnographic account of fostering an unaccompanied asylum seeker

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            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.

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            Journal
            IJSP
            International Journal of Social Pedagogy
            UCL Press
            2051-5804
            21 April 2021
            : 10
            : 1
            : 5
            Affiliations
            School of Education and Social Work, University of Dundee, Old Medical School, Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK; m.z.v.smith@ 123456dundee.ac.uk
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            [* ]Correspondence: m.daly@ 123456dundee.ac.uk
            Article
            IJSP-10-5
            10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2021.v10.x.005
            13975d01-5f3a-4afe-958e-6077d15c22ea
            © 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 • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2021.v10.x.005.

            History
            : 16 August 2020
            : 26 March 2021
            Page count
            Pages: 13
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            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): 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2021.v10.x.005.

            Sociology,Education,Social policy & Welfare,General social science,General behavioral science,Family & Child studies
            unaccompanied,Scotland,autoethnography,refugee,Muslim, asylum,social work,social pedagogy,foster care

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