Etiska svårigheter i det sociala arbetet på ett asylboende för ensamkommande flyktingbarn

ABSTRACT The purpose of this essay is that, through a descriptive ethic study, with staff in an asylum accommodation describe the ethical views and difficulties that may arise in work with asylum seekers unaccompanied refugee children. To help investigate, I have used the following questions: • What ethical problems is the staff on asylum accommodation experiencing during the qualitative interviews and what conclusions can be drawn from this? • What kind of ethics principles are in use or emphasizes by the social workers in the social work with refugee children? • Is there a correspondence between the Migration Board's ethical values and ethical values in work with refugee children that staff at an asylum accommodation experiences? Through this study I have come to the conclusion that it is possible to obtain information about ethical problems that may arise at work on an asylum accommodation through a descriptive ethic study. The vital importance for the width and depth of the results are dependent on number of interviews, number of asylum accommodation and how the questions for the interview are formulated. It has been shown that ethical problems in work with refugee children in the area that is about the professional role, insufficiency of the social worker experiences, the interaction between social worker and the refugee children and cultural differences. The ethical difficulties that the social worker raised in the interviews can be traced to the principles of normative ethics. Migration Board’s ethical value is in some regards the same ones as social workers take up during the interviews. To obtain more detailed information concerning how the employees at the Migration Board looks at the ethical difficulties in work with refugee children, it is necessary to conduct interviews with staff from the Migration Board as well. Keywords: Refugee children, asylum-seeking children, ethical problems, social worker, Migration Boar