Reference : The Vulnerability of Young Refugees Living in Reception Centres in Luxembourg: An Ove...

	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54568

Title :	The Vulnerability of Young Refugees Living in Reception Centres in Luxembourg: An Overview of Conditions and Experiences across Subjective Temporal Imaginaries
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Gilodi, Amalia [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
	Richard, Catherine [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Geography and Spatial Planning (DGEO)]
	Albert, Isabelle [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
	Nienaber, Birte [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Geography and Spatial Planning (DGEO) >]
Publication date :	14-Feb-2023
Journal title :	Social Sciences
Publisher :	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Volume :	12
Issue/season :	02
Special issue title :	The Lives of TCN Migrant Youth in Europe between Perceived Vulnerabilities and Resources
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
e-ISSN :	2076-0760
City :	Basel
Country :	Switzerland
Keywords :	[en] vulnerability ; refugees ; time ; reception system ; Luxembourg
Abstract :	[en] Vulnerability has become a key concept in discourses and policies on international protection and reception of refugees. In this context, the notion has been described as a tool to provide special provisions to groups at higher risk or one to perpetuate political agendas within increasingly hostile reception systems. However, vulnerability as an analytical concept has received less attention, with both policymakers and scholars often employing different conceptualisations of vulnerability or treating it as a self-explanatory condition. Building on a previous conceptual elaboration, this paper sets out to apply an understanding of vulnerability as multi-layered, dynamic and embedded in a study of the lived experiences of a group of potentially ‘vulnerable’ migrants, based on ‘fixed’ contextual criteria. Drawing from in-depth interviews with young adults who obtained refugee status in Luxembourg but still live in ‘temporary’ reception centres, this paper provides a wide analytical overview of the conditions of vulnerability encountered by this specific group of migrants, in the process of building their lives in a new country. Following the participants’ subjective temporal imaginaries of past, present and future, the analysis highlights and problematises conditions of structural, situational and experiential vulnerability emerging from their accounts and experiences, and discusses their possible implications.
Funders :	European Commission - EC
Name of the research project :	MIMY - EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54568
DOI :	10.3390/socsci12020102
Other URL :	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/2/102
Framework Programme / European Project :	H2020 ; 870700 - MIMY - EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions

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