Abstract
Young migrants face specific developmental challenges and multiple cultural expectations. This study aims at providing insight to such challenges and strategies to navigate them. The article presents a narrative analysis of a young refugee’s story about entering Norwegian society, based on interviews with three girls, whose stories were merged into one in dialogue with the participants themselves. Nadia’s story describes her demanding outsider position after migration and the growing conflict between her mother’s and majority society’s expectations to a girl from her origin. After some time in a supportive creative arena, Nadia found ways to negotiate diverging voices and categories and balance her cultures strategically and confidently. Challenges and opportunities experienced by young refugees stem from both minority and majority voices. Society can facilitate constructive cultural navigation by providing safe and supportive arenas, listening, and allowing young refugees to be the subject of their own story.
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