Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Unaccompanied girls with precarious odds
Stockholm University, Faculty of Law, Department of Law, Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child. Uppsala University, Sweden.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2459-1311
2021 (English)In: The Journal of Refugee Studies, ISSN 0951-6328, E-ISSN 1471-6925, Vol. 34, no 4, p. 3871-3887Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Statistics made available by the Swedish Migration Agency (SMA) make it possible to follow first-decision outcomes in asylum cases concerning unaccompanied children (types of residence permits granted, percentage of rejections, etc.). Yet, we know little about differences in asylum decision outcomes for unaccompanied children coming to Sweden. Therefore, we wanted to find out how gender, country of origin, and asylum reports are associated with the likelihood of being granted residency. Asylum decisions concerning unaccompanied children were first coded inductively. These codes were later merged into larger categories that were analyzed quantitatively by logistic regression analysis. The data sample consisted of one calendar year of asylum decisions issued by the SMA. Results show that fewer girls than boys were granted asylum, and in fact, girls have an overall lower prospect of being granted residency. Results also display statistically significant gender differences in reported reasons for seeking asylum.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. Vol. 34, no 4, p. 3871-3887
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-190945DOI: 10.1093/jrs/feaa101ISI: 000754315000016OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-190945DiVA, id: diva2:1534126
Available from: 2021-03-04 Created: 2021-03-04 Last updated: 2022-03-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Hedlund, DanielSohlberg, Tove

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Hedlund, DanielSohlberg, Tove
By organisation
Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the ChildDepartment of Sociology
In the same journal
The Journal of Refugee Studies
Sociology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 374 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf