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Title: Reflections on “In detention I saw hell on earth” : giving voice, bearing witness, advocacy and preserving history’ - a research presentation session by Dr Maria Pisani and Dr Lorleen Farrugia
Authors: Vella, Mary Grace
Keywords: Children -- Institutional care
Children -- Institutional care -- Malta
Child welfare
Child welfare -- Malta
Child care services -- Government policy
Child care services -- Government policy -- Malta
Child care -- Government policy
Child care -- Government policy -- Malta
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: University of Malta. Faculty for Social Wellbeing
Citation: Vella, M. G. (2024). Reflections on “In detention I saw hell on earth” : giving voice, bearing witness, advocacy and preserving history’ - a research presentation session by Dr Maria Pisani and Dr Lorleen Farrugia. Societas.Expert, 4, 39-41.
Abstract: This paper will present reflections on a conference session by Pisani & Farrugia (2022), on their research that explored the lived experiences of unaccompanied minors as they transitioned to adulthood. The researchers also aimed to give voice, bear witness, develop an evidence base for ongoing advocacy, and to document and preserve for historical purposes the voices of unaccompanied minors. The findings of this research demonstrate how the State has not only failed in its obligation to protect the rights of young people seeking asylum, but has itself actually been a source of control, terror and violence. This paper adds on to these reflections by focussing on the predatory relationship between the state and unaccompanied minors and calls for an end to this form of institutionalised racism and State Crime.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/119988
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