ABSTRACT

There is a need for increased knowledge regarding refugee women’s experiences of integration. This study concerns young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking (UAS) girls, and how they understand integration and their everyday life. Six young women, age 19–24, who came to Sweden as UAS children in the period 2013–2015 participated in semi-structured interviews, which were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Five themes emerged: Relationships to family members; Being a minority woman; The importance of information; Integrating cultures; and Dreams and agency. Their everyday lives could be difficult, for example since interventions often targeted and were dominated by boys and men. Moreover, the participants sensed that they were in contradictory positions. While striving to integrate Swedish and Afghan customs they described expectations from parents and the Afghan community to live according to Afghan traditions. Despite being in vulnerable positions, they experienced independence and the capacity to change their lives and sought to contribute to equal rights for women. The participants described integration as a process, enhanced by their personal agency and by their social, relational, and material contexts. Based on the results, we discuss how integration can be supported.

摘要

需要增加关于难民妇女融入社会经历的知识。这项研究涉及作为无人陪伴的寻求庇护 (UAS) 女孩来到瑞典的年轻女性，以及她们如何理解融入和日常生活。在 2013-2015 年期间作为 UAS 儿童来到瑞典的六名 19-24 岁的年轻女性参加了半结构化访谈，这些访谈使用解释性现象学分析进行了分析。出现了五个主题： 与家庭成员的关系；作为少数民族妇女；信息的重要性；整合文化；和梦想和代理。他们的日常生活可能很困难，例如，因为干预措施往往针对并由男孩和男性主导。此外，参与者感觉到他们处于矛盾的位置。在努力融合瑞典和阿富汗习俗的同时，他们描述了父母和阿富汗社区对按照阿富汗传统生活的期望。尽管处于弱势地位，但她们经历了独立和改变生活的能力，并努力为妇女的平等权利做出贡献。参与者将整合描述为一个过程，通过他们的个人能动性以及他们的社会、关系和物质环境来增强。根据结果​​，我们讨论如何支持集成。通过他们的个人能动性以及他们的社会、关系和物质环境来增强。根据结果​​，我们讨论如何支持集成。通过他们的个人能动性以及他们的社会、关系和物质环境来增强。根据结果​​，我们讨论如何支持集成。