Young Newcomers’ Convoy of Social Relations: The Supportive Network of Accompanied Refugee Minors in Urban Belgium

Author:

Huysmans Minne1ORCID,Lambotte Deborah2,Muls Jaël3,Vanhee Jan4,Meurs Pieter3,Verté Dominique3

Affiliation:

1. Department of Adult Educational Sciences, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels and Department of Social Work, Zespenningenstraat 70, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

2. Department of Nursing education, Campus Vesalius, Keramiekstraat 80, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

3. Department of Adult Educational Sciences, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

4. Department for Culture, Youth, and Media, European and International Youth Policy – EU Youth affairs attaché, General representation of the Government of Flanders in Europe, Arenbergstraat 9, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Abstract Social networks play a crucial role in migration processes, facilitating adaption and well-being. Yet, accessing and establishing supportive ties in the host society are far from evident. This study voices the ways by which Accompanied Refugee Minors (ARM) (re)create supportive networks across multiple borders shortly after arrival into an urban environment, by applying Kahn and Antonucci’s Convoy Model of social relations. In order to do so, 25 ARM who recently migrated to urban Belgium were interviewed. Most of the ARM have little links to their new living environment. Their fragile networks are homogenous and seldomly connect to the urban context they live in. This group of newcomers is positioned in an intermediate position: on the one hand, they are mostly seen as ‘accompanied’ children where parents are seen as primary source of support; on the other hand, they are young refugees, both enhancing exclusionary aspects in their connection to the broader society surrounding them.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Political Science and International Relations,Geography, Planning and Development

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