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<p>Focusing on practices and representations mobilized by street-level workers in the management of North African unaccompanied minor migrants (UAMs) in Geneva, I take a closer look at the everyday assessment and production of UAMs’ deservingness in the context of humanitarianism. I show the importance of doubt and of perceived vulnerability in the informal evaluation process of UAMs’ right for protection. I further demonstrate how the social construction of childhood, race, and gender influence street-level workers’ perceptions.</p>
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Focusing on practices and representations mobilized by street-level workers in the management of North African unaccompanied minor migrants (UAMs) in Geneva, I take a closer look at the everyday assessment and production of UAMs’ deservingness in the context of humanitarianism. I show the importance of doubt and of perceived vulnerability in the informal evaluation process of UAMs’ right for protection. I further demonstrate how the social construction of childhood, race, and gender influence street-level workers’ perceptions.

Street-Level Workers and Unaccompanied Minors: Between Vulnerability and Suspicion

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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Focusing on practices and representations mobilized by street-level workers in the management of North African unaccompanied minor migrants (UAMs) in Geneva, I...

Street-Level Workers and Unaccompanied Minors: Between Vulnerability and Suspicion

Published Online: Nov 07, 2022

Page range: 571 - 592

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2022-0028

Keywords
Migration, street-level workers, humanitarianism, race, gender

© 2022 Sélim Clerc, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Street-Level Workers and Unaccompanied Minors: Between Vulnerability and Suspicion

Published Online: Nov 07, 2022

Page range: 571 - 592

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2022-0028

KeywordsMigration, street-level workers, humanitarianism, race, gender

© 2022 Sélim Clerc, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Migration, street-level workers, humanitarianism, race, gender