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‘I Can’t Even Talk to My Parents About It’: South Sudanese Youth Advocates’ Perspectives on Suicide Through Reflexive Discussions and Collaborative Poetic Inquiry
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: Received: 18 September 2024 / Approved: 19 September 2024 / Online: 20 September 2024 (10:50:35 CEST)
How to cite:
Kasherwa, A.; Lenette, C.; Arop, A.; Duot, A. ‘I Can’t Even Talk to My Parents About It’: South Sudanese Youth Advocates’ Perspectives on Suicide Through Reflexive Discussions and Collaborative Poetic Inquiry. Preprints2024, 2024091520. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1520.v1
Kasherwa, A.; Lenette, C.; Arop, A.; Duot, A. ‘I Can’t Even Talk to My Parents About It’: South Sudanese Youth Advocates’ Perspectives on Suicide Through Reflexive Discussions and Collaborative Poetic Inquiry. Preprints 2024, 2024091520. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1520.v1
Kasherwa, A.; Lenette, C.; Arop, A.; Duot, A. ‘I Can’t Even Talk to My Parents About It’: South Sudanese Youth Advocates’ Perspectives on Suicide Through Reflexive Discussions and Collaborative Poetic Inquiry. Preprints2024, 2024091520. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1520.v1
APA Style
Kasherwa, A., Lenette, C., Arop, A., & Duot, A. (2024). ‘I Can’t Even Talk to My Parents About It’: South Sudanese Youth Advocates’ Perspectives on Suicide Through Reflexive Discussions and Collaborative Poetic Inquiry. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1520.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Kasherwa, A., Achol Arop and Ajang Duot. 2024 "‘I Can’t Even Talk to My Parents About It’: South Sudanese Youth Advocates’ Perspectives on Suicide Through Reflexive Discussions and Collaborative Poetic Inquiry" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1520.v1
Abstract
The issue of suicide has garnered considerable attention in refugee scholarship, where research examines how unique forced migration and resettlement challenges exacerbate risks and vul-nerabilities to suicide. However, there are gaps in understanding the social and cultural factors shaping the lived experience of suicide in refugee communities. Using the example of Afri-can-background young people in Australia, this paper presents a collaboration among two aca-demics and two South Sudanese youth advocates to explore the sociocultural factors impacting suicidality through reflexive discussions and collaborative poetry. This combined approach of-fered a unique and nuanced conceptual and methodological framework to contribute culturally specific narratives to critical suicide studies and challenge western-centric and biomedical per-spectives on suicide. The process highlighted (i) the lack of dialogue about suicide in the South Sudanese community, and (ii) an absence of community-based support structures to address sui-cide. This paper provides useful insights on the culturally specific context of suicide, adding ref-ugee perspectives to the discipline of critical suicide studies.
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