Relational wellbeing in the lives of refugee young people in Finland, Norway and the UK

研究证实，无人陪伴的寻求庇护的年轻人在芬兰、挪威和英国等目的地国家面临障碍和挑战。随着时间的推移，尽管困难重重，一些人还是成功地获得了在这些国家定居的许可。随着他们定居下来，许多公共机构逐渐从他们的生活中消失，他们建立了社交网络，对美好的未来充满希望。随着他们与其他人建立起持久的关系，并为他们的新国家增添了活力，普通的生活再次出现。我们的建议集中在获准定居后的新生活上。在每个国家，我们研究了年轻难民如何描绘和描述他们的网络和关系。在三年的时间里，我们在芬兰、挪威和英国陪伴他们。我们也会采访他们在社交网络中认为有价值的人。我们考虑到芬兰人、挪威人和英国人如何在他们的国家为他们腾出空间。我们注重互惠互利。我们注重热情好客和互惠互利。总的来说，我们收集了关于为彼此建立和平与繁荣的故事，作为关系幸福的表达。这些故事是定期收集的，以了解年轻人和他们的社交网络是如何随着时间的推移而流动和发展的。我们来看看这些定居下来的难民是怎么说事情进展顺利的，即使他们在生活中有需要、有担忧和困难。但我们的项目不仅仅是文字。这也是关于艺术的。我们与艺术治疗师和视觉艺术家合作，帮助年轻的难民创造有关关系健康的物品和图像。我们通过三种方式来做到这一点——首先，让他们向我们展示他们与他人的日常生活中的关系幸福是什么样子的。然后我们让他们想象一下未来会是什么样子。最后，我们要求他们在离开原籍国之前在生活中记住这一点。然后，我们把他们的故事、图像和物品放在一起，看看过去、现在和未来的关系幸福感随着时间的推移是如何相似或不同的。对于难民青年来说，从动荡到活力的旅程往往是漫长的。我们希望通过照片和故事，展示在经历了戏剧性的庇护之后，他们和其他人在安静、不起眼的时刻走到一起，随着时间的推移，他们成为一个国家多样性和财富的一部分。

Research confirms that unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people face obstacles and challenges in destination countries such as Finland, Norway, and the UK. Over time, despite the difficulties, some are successful in being given permission to settle in these countries. As they settle, many public authorities fade from their lives and social networks are built, with hopes for a good future. Ordinary life emerges once again, as they develop sustaining relationships with other people, and add to the life of their new country.Our proposal focuses on this new life after permission to settle. In each country, we examine how young refugees draw and describe their networks and relationships. Over a period of three years we accompany them in Finland, Norway, and the UK. We also interview people who they nominate as their value person from their social networks. We consider how Finns, Norwegians and the British make room for them in their countries. We focus on mutuality. We focus on hospitality and reciprocity. Overall, we gather stories about building peace and prosperity for each other as an expression of relational wellbeing. The stories are gathered on a regular basis, to see how young people and their social networks flow and evolve over time.We look at what these settled refugees say about things going well, even when they have needs, worries and difficulties in life. But our project is not just about words. It’s also about art. We work with art therapists and visual artists to help young refugees create objects and images about relational wellbeing. We do this in three ways – first, by asking them to show us what relational wellbeing looks like in their day to day life with others in the present. Then we ask them to imagine how it might look in the future. Finally, we ask them to remember it in their lives before they left their country of origin. Then we put their stories, images and objects together to see how relational wellbeing in the past, present and future is similar or different over time. The journey from volatility to vitality is often a long one for refugee youth. We hope to show pictures and stories of how life flows after the drama of asylum, in the quiet, unremarkable moments when they and others are drawn together and as they become part of a nation’s diversity and wealth over time.