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dc.contributor.authorSkoglund, Jeanette
dc.contributor.authorHoltan, Amy
dc.contributor.authorThørnblad, Renee
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-31T11:07:34Z
dc.date.available2018-07-31T11:07:34Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-09
dc.description.abstractThis article draws on interviews with 26 young adults (15 women and 11 men, aged 19–29) who grew up in long-term kinship care in Norway, and explore how they portray their childhoods. Our starting point is that the foster child status provide cultural and public narratives, images and positions for the young adults to employ when interpreting childhood experiences. The question we ask is how this status is made relevant in the production of childhood narratives. Doing this, we seek to gain insights into how the formal aspect of kinship care can influence on childhood understandings. Based on how childhood experiences are (re)constructed and how the young adults position themselves and their foster parents in their narratives, we have constructed four ways of portraying childhoods in kinship care, as: normal, supported, struggling and neglected. The article clarifies the criteria for constructing the different types of childhood, and discusses how the foster child status is made relevant in each type.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Nordic Social Work Research on 9 January 2018, available online: <a href=http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/2156857X.2017.1422139> http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/2156857X.2017.1422139</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSkoglund, J., Holtan, A. & Thørnblad, R. (2018). The meaning and making of childhoods in kinship care – young adults' narratives. Nordic Social Work Research, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2017.1422139en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1556996
dc.identifier.issn2156-857X
dc.identifier.issn2156-8588
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/13316
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_US
dc.relation.journalNordic Social Work Research
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosiologi: 220en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Sociology: 220en_US
dc.subjectKinship careen_US
dc.subjectchildhooden_US
dc.subjectfoster childen_US
dc.subjectnarrativesen_US
dc.subjectclientisationen_US
dc.subjectnormalityen_US
dc.titleThe meaning and making of childhoods in kinship care – young adults' narrativesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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