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Lina Ponnert

Docent i socialt arbete | universitetslektor

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Emotional kinship care and neutral non-kinship care - the struggle between discourses

Författare

  • Lina Ponnert

Summary, in English

In this paper, social workers' ideas of kinship care and non-kinship care as foster placement alternatives for vulnerable children are analysed and discussed. The study is based on group interviews with Swedish social workers, using a discourse analytic approach. The interviews took two vignettes of children who needed an immediate and long-term placement because one of the parents had killed the other parent, as their point of departure. Domestic violence is a common social problem across countries, and controversies about placement alternatives become even more apparent when discussing lethal violence. The analysis revealed three main discourses: ‘emotional kinship care’, ‘neutral non-kinship care’ and ‘a real family’. The emotional kinship care discourse also revealed two competing sub-discourses: ‘emotions as glue that binds’ and ‘emotions as obscuring a child perspective’, displaying a struggle concerning the advantages and risks that social workers connected to kinship care. In this paper, the results and their implications for vulnerable children are discussed.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan

Publiceringsår

2017-05

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1084-1093

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Child & Family Social Work

Volym

22

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • children in care system
  • discourse analysis
  • foster care
  • kinship care
  • social work
  • violence

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1356-7500