Refugee Families With Children With Disabilities: Exploring Their Social Network and Support Needs. A Good Practice Example
This study focuses on caregivers from refugee backgrounds who have children with disabilities. By concentrating on the support role of social networks, it explores how caregivers navigated the Austrian social support system. Semi-structured interviews with three caregivers and five service providers...
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| description | This study focuses on caregivers from refugee backgrounds who have children with disabilities. By concentrating on the support role of social networks, it explores how caregivers navigated the Austrian social support system. Semi-structured interviews with three caregivers and five service providers (including parents' guides: Elternlotsinnen) for migrant families with children with disabilities were conducted. The findings reveal not only particular challenges—for example, displaced children with disabilities not receiving adequate support from social providers—but they also allude to certain good practices. Results demonstrate that one organization, that finds itself at the intersection of migration and disability, improved the knowledge about the support system for these caregivers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc82199ef76f46c6821dc976dbf6c96f2022-12-22T01:54:25ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2020-06-01510.3389/feduc.2020.00061516904Refugee Families With Children With Disabilities: Exploring Their Social Network and Support Needs. A Good Practice ExampleEdvina Bešić0Lea Hochgatterer1Institute for Secondary Teacher Education, University College of Teacher Education Styria, Graz, AustriaInstitute of Professional Development in Education, University of Graz, Graz, AustriaThis study focuses on caregivers from refugee backgrounds who have children with disabilities. By concentrating on the support role of social networks, it explores how caregivers navigated the Austrian social support system. Semi-structured interviews with three caregivers and five service providers (including parents' guides: Elternlotsinnen) for migrant families with children with disabilities were conducted. The findings reveal not only particular challenges—for example, displaced children with disabilities not receiving adequate support from social providers—but they also allude to certain good practices. Results demonstrate that one organization, that finds itself at the intersection of migration and disability, improved the knowledge about the support system for these caregivers.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.00061/fullrefugee familiesdisabilityintersectionalitysocial networksocial supportintercultural interlocutors |
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| title | Refugee Families With Children With Disabilities: Exploring Their Social Network and Support Needs. A Good Practice Example |
| title_full | Refugee Families With Children With Disabilities: Exploring Their Social Network and Support Needs. A Good Practice Example |
| title_fullStr | Refugee Families With Children With Disabilities: Exploring Their Social Network and Support Needs. A Good Practice Example |
| title_full_unstemmed | Refugee Families With Children With Disabilities: Exploring Their Social Network and Support Needs. A Good Practice Example |
| title_short | Refugee Families With Children With Disabilities: Exploring Their Social Network and Support Needs. A Good Practice Example |
| title_sort | refugee families with children with disabilities exploring their social network and support needs a good practice example |
| topic | refugee families disability intersectionality social network social support intercultural interlocutors |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.00061/full |
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