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Ulrika Wernesjö is an Associate Professor at Linköping University, with research primarily focused on belonging, social rights processes, and the welfare state, emphasizing migration, citizenship, and the experiences of children and youth. Her doctoral thesis, 'Conditional Belonging: Listening to Unaccompanied Young Refugees’ Voices' (2014) explored the negotiations of belonging among young people arriving in Sweden, particularly focusing on unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors. This thesis revealed how the processes of belonging are shaped by social relations and issues of exclusion and racialization. Wernesjö's postdoctoral project from 2016 to 2018 at Linköping University continued her examination of the situations and needs of children categorized as unaccompanied minors, analyzing the roles of municipal social work and the complex assessments made by social workers, with particular attention to factors such as gender, intersectionality, age, ethnicity, and class. Her research has critically engaged with the conditions of social work involving asylum-seeking children in the context of the restrictive Swedish migration policy enacted in 2015.
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