{"id":37100,"date":"2014-08-18T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37100"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:33:43","slug":"who-cares-about-mixed-race-care-experiences-of-young-people-in-an-inner-city-borough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37100","title":{"rendered":"Who cares about mixed race? Care experiences of young people in an inner city borough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.gold.ac.uk\/2885\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Who <\/strong><\/em><strong>cares<\/strong><em><strong> about mixed race? Care experiences of young people in an inner city borough<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goldsmiths, University of London<br \/>\nApril 2010<br \/>\n280 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiona Virginia Peters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This thesis is an engagement with the care experiences of mixed young people, to\u00a0produce knowledge of how care processes, mediated though the private foster family,\u00a0impact on their lives. It begins with an examination of the relationship between the\u00a0mixed classification and care, and continues through a discussion of race, race mixing\u00a0and the family. The study then examines methodologically how the mixed classification\u00a0operates in social work through a discussion of racialisation and its impact on the care\u00a0trajectory of young people. Further, it engages with long-standing debates over why\u00a0young people with a mixed classification are more likely to be significantly represented in\u00a0care. The empirical chapters are comprised of the narrative accounts and visual\u00a0representations of the young people and their experiences in care.<\/p>\n<p>A highly participatory research methodology paid critical attention to the narratives of mixed young people in care between the ages of 12-20 years, as research participants, in\u00a0order to engage and elicit rich detail about their care experiences. An innovative mixedmethod\u00a0approach emerged in part from their specific circumstances and led to new ways\u00a0to research with and understand young people who live in circumstances of instability\u00a0often characterised by crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This thesis engages with the care experiences of the participants to reveal how the\u00a0discursive repertoires of mixedness and their application through care processes impacts\u00a0on lives. Each empirical chapter is presented as an individual case study that examines\u00a0the experiences of a single participant in order to interrogate care practices in relation to\u00a0mixedness. The themes to emerge centre around family, relationality, professional\u00a0intervention, classification and identification, race and mixedness, sex, gender, class,\u00a0culture and ethnicity, all within the crisis of the care system. This thesis argues that\u00a0placing the care experiences of mixed young people in the centre of debates about how\u00a0to conceptualise mixedness could influence care planning.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/research.gold.ac.uk\/2885\/1\/SOC_thesis_Peters_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who cares about mixed race? Care experiences of young people in an inner city borough Goldsmiths, University of London April 2010 280 pages Fiona Virginia Peters A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London This thesis is an engagement with the care experiences of mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,8,394,4481,10],"tags":[17757,17756],"class_list":["post-37100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-social-work","category-uk","tag-fiona-virginia-peters","tag-goldsmiths-university-of-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}