Unaccompanied refugee minors and resettlement: Turning points towards integration

Resettling into a new country may pose many challenges for unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs). In this study we seek to get better understanding of these through analysing interviews with 48 URMs five years after their arrival in Norway, using the concept turning points as an analytic frame. Gaining sense security, feeling affiliated, being loved and cared for, becoming independent were identified important points. Despite high levels agency, youths struggled fulfil basic needs, possibly due limited relational cultural resources. These struggles seemed interfere capacity participate developmental activities, affecting well-being making integration difficult. This study's results accentuate need systems assistance from people support system help towards secure, loved, facilitate resettlement integration.