ABSTRACT
Young male refugees are denoted, represented and grouped, both in public discourse and in social work, in socially constructed categories. To avoid the reproduction of these ascriptions, we engage in “shared reading” of ethnographic data in an intersectional manner. This approach helps to highlight ambiguities and practices of the production of differences beyond both legal frameworks and the dominant discourse on refugees. Social work can benefit from this approach as it helps to identify complex and individual needs of young refugees, thereby aiming at a treatment of young refugees not based on generalizing and homogenizing assumptions.
