'I Want to Give Something Back': Social Support and Reciprocity in the Lives of Young Refugees

This article analyzes the support relationships of 10 asylum-seeking young people who fled to Germany between 2010 and 2015. It highlights their wish for reciprocity as a need in country destination expands upon Sahlin’s typology reciprocal (generalized, balanced, negative reciprocity) by type “refused reciprocity.” “Refused reciprocity” occurs when are keen reciprocate they have received, but live environments that restrict agency. The argues participation means not only provision support, creation opportunities experience themselves self-effective actors. They become can cope successfully with new difficult situations on own.