Heder - ett känsligt ämne utan språk : En kvalitativ studie av skolkuratorers beskrivningar av att arbeta med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck

Sammanfattning: Honor: a delicate subject without terminology - School counselors’ constructions of honor related violence About 10-15 % of the pupils in Swedish schools are estimated to be living under honor related norms in collectivistic environments. The aim of this study was to explore school counselors’ reasoning when working with students who are limited or otherwise affected due to honor related norms. The method chosen for this study was qualitative semi structured interviews conducted with four professional school counselors from four different schools. I applied Bourdieu’s theory on doxa of the field and Loseke’s theory about claims making of social problems to explore how honor related violence is constructed, what professional norms are expressed, and what difficulties are described as significant by the counselors. This study found that honor doesn't seem to be a clearly constructed social problem yet and that handling honor related cases is not a part of the doxa of school counselors. In fact, the doxa of school counselors seemed to cause problems when wanting to handle honor related issues. There was an expressed fear of doing wrong and sometimes the counselors weren’t sure if the problem with honor was to be understood as something related to culture and religion or to human rights. This paradox made it hard for the school counselors to understand and handle the cases where culture of honor played a part. Even in those cases where the school counselor had more knowledge on how to handle honor related cases, they expressed that they weren’t sure that the rest of the welfare system had the knowledge, tools or language to handle these cases. The findings in this study show a misfit between the current counselor doxa and the urge and call to combat honor related violence.