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- Title
'Inevitable distinctions': The discursive construction of unaccompanied minors' agency in Italian residential care.
- Authors
Saglietti, Marzia
- Abstract
Professionals working in residential care for children everyday perform the institutional relevant activity of constructing their cases. This article analyzes the ways in which they construct the case of 'unaccompanied minors' (UAM) and how, in doing so, they talk into being their everyday practices of work. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Italian residential care professionals, this study adopts a Discourse Analysis approach. Findings illustrate how the discursive assemblage of UAM relies on participants' multiple distinctions and on a contrastive rhetoric that is widely used in social work. Differences in the case-construction of UAM mirror participants' institutional settings and overall socio-cultural debate, paving the way for future investigation.
- Subjects
RESIDENTIAL care; SOCIAL services; UNACCOMPANIED refugee children; IMMIGRANTS; CHILD welfare
- Publication
Language & Dialogue, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1, p172
- ISSN
2210-4119
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ld.00037.sag