The causes and consequences of vulnerability for young refugees building a life in Luxembourg: a critical phenomenological analysis

In the context of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, the assessment of vulnerability has become a key tool to direct limited resources and assistance within a state of emergency. Its use in international aid and reception has been criticized as promoting the individualization of vulnerability rather than focusing on the socio-legal structures that create conditions of vulnerability. Yet, shifting the focus on the structural determinants of vulnerability risks ignoring the agentic power and subjective conditions of individuals within a ‘vulnerable’ group. Drawing from this debate, the current stud... Mehr ...