Shape of Belonging for Unaccompanied Young Migrants

Özlem Ögtem-Young is a sociologist and qualitative researcher working as Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham. Her expertise spans the areas of migration, poverty, and socio-economic inequality. Özlem's research draws upon and extends Deleuzo-Guttarian theoretical and philosophical concepts to examine the everyday experiences of marginalized communities and migrant groups facing precariousness, exclusion, and various forms of violence.

"This book is a timely, indispensable scholarly and political intervention. Theoretically erudite, superbly written and ethically driven, Ögtem-Young presents an overdue intercession in landscapes of policy and scholarship. Offering new empirical data that is considered with care, Ögtem-Young develops complex and insightful ways of understanding and responding to the predicaments of unaccompanied young migrants' in England. This book is required reading for those working in youth studies, policy studies and Deleuze and Guattari studies. Ögtem-Young's work is illuminating, engaging and urgently needed." Anna Hickey-Moody, Maynooth University

• Introduction: Tracing Nader: Displacement, Unaccompanied Young People and Belonging1.Unaccompanied Young People in Policy and Research2.‘Disassembling’ and ‘Reassembling’ Belonging3.Tracing Molar Lines: Border, Immigration and Asylum Policy and Unaccompanied Young People4.Tracing Molecular Lines: Encounters with ‘Micropolitics’ of Professionals, Activists and Carers5.Tracing Nomadic Lines: Nomadic Subjectivities and The Belonging of Unaccompanied Young PeopleConclusion: Belonging–Assemblage – Molar Forces, Molecular Flows and Nomadic Belonging(s)