"Men hun er da dansk?". Om pigers institutionelle forhandlinger af kön og etnicitet
Engelsk titel: "But she is Danish?". About girls institutional negotiations of gender and ethnicity
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Författare:
Henriksen, Ann-Karina
Email: ankh@socsci.aau.dk.
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 19
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 18010215
Sammanfattning
The article explores how gender and ethnicity is negotiated by girls placed in secure care. International research has increasingly explored girls’ involvement in crime and street culture demonstrating how these affiliations shape gender and ethnicity. It is however, not thoroughly explored how these identifications and affiliations are shaped in interactions with professionals in social work. Drawing on a qualitative study on girls placed in secure care, this interaction is analysed using two cases. By applying poststructuralist theory on subjectivity, identity is analysed as changing social orientations towards safety, belonging and agency. In the conclusion, I argue that an understanding of identity as fluid and hybrid is relevant for welfare state professionals in their interventions for youth at risk.