Skip Navigation

Journal of Refugee Studies 2001 14(2):187-199; doi:10.1093/jrs/14.2.187
© 2001 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Anderson, P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Research Note

‘You Don't Belong Here in Germany...’: On the Social Situation of Refugee Children in Germany

Philip Anderson1

1 Office for Intercultural Affairs, City of Munich

This paper looks at refugee children in Germany and is based on an interview-based research project. Areas covered include: how the children learn German and the role of bilingual skills; friendships and contacts at school; the degree of integration in the local neighbourhood; how traumatic experiences are dealt with; the effects of lack of secure residential status; the specific situation of unaccompanied minors. One of the salient features of refugee children's lives is the state of constant uncertainty as regards the future and life planning which this situation entails. It increases the psychological pressure inherent in life stories already characterized by flight, social dislocation and social and cultural uprootedness.

Received October 2000. Revised April 2001.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Transcultural PsychiatryHome page
E. B. Pinto Wiese and I. Burhorst
The Mental Health of Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children and Adolescents Attending a Clinic in the Netherlands
Transcultural Psychiatry, December 1, 2007; 44(4): 596 - 613.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Br J Soc WorkHome page
R. K. S. Kohli
The Sound Of Silence: Listening to What Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children Say and Do Not Say
Br. J. Soc. Work, July 1, 2006; 36(5): 707 - 721.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.