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Young Migrants’ Experiences and Conditions for Health: A Photovoice Study
Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4515-6634
Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3876-7202
2020 (English)In: SAGE Open, E-ISSN 2158-2440, Vol. 10, no 2Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Visualization and expression of health-related experiences and conditions by young migrants from five different countries residing in Sweden were examined in this study. Using photovoice, the participants were invited to describe and discuss their experiences in three stages: (a) document and portray their everyday lives by taking pictures, (b) discuss their findings, and (c) present their views on health to the adults who are present in their everyday life and that are important for improving young migrants’ health conditions. The overall findings indicate that temporal, spatial, and social conditions are important for the well-being of these young migrants. Thus, in order for the young migrants to feel well in a new cultural context, a search for meaning and meaningfulness in relation to time, place, and other people was important. These findings are discussed in light of social, mental, and existential health dimensions and in relation to the selected study methods Copyright © 2021 by SAGE Publications Inc.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Thousand Oaks, 2020. Vol. 10, no 2
Keywords [en]
existential health, health promotion, photovoice, young migrants
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Nursing Occupational Therapy
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Occupational therapy; Nursing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45562DOI: 10.1177/2158244020920665ISI: 000535978200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85084672776OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-45562DiVA, id: diva2:1592970
Available from: 2021-09-10 Created: 2021-09-10 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved
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1. Understanding young people’s well-being within a translocal everyday life: How health and well-being are experienced and conditioned in the daily school life of young people recently migrated to Sweden
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Understanding young people’s well-being within a translocal everyday life: How health and well-being are experienced and conditioned in the daily school life of young people recently migrated to Sweden
2022 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This dissertation deals with the relationship between young people’s health, everyday life, school, and migration. It is a compilation dissertation based on a comprehensive summary (kappa) and four empirical articles. With the school as a point of departure, the dissertation’s overarching aim is to explore everyday experiences of and conditions for health and well-being among young people who recently migrated to Sweden. Further, the aim is to illuminate and problematize the conditions and circumstances within which health is created and negotiated for this group of youths. The newly arrived youths’ experiences and conditions for health and well-being are analyzed through an overall social and cultural framework that emphasizes everyday life and micro-processes. At the same time, everyday experiences, social positionings, and material conditions, explored in the various studies, are linked to power processes. The individual’s room for agency in daily life depends on historical, structural, and relational conditions. In other words, health is related to power in various ways, which forms an extensive part of the dissertation’s analytical focus. The findings are based on three independent data collections, all with a qualitative, exploratory, and health-promoting approach. The study participants are males and females (16–20 years old) from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Palestine, Kosovo, and Greece. The overall findings show how the young people’s health and well-being are created and conditioned in relation to their relationally, spatially, and temporally situated life experiences, concerning their negotiations of migrant positions, and through their possibilities to matter in regard to the material conditions of the everyday life. By an overall social and cultural approach, emphasizing a translocal everyday life when exploring the conditions of health and well-being for young people recently arrived in Sweden, this dissertation contributes to an under-researched field at the intersection of young people’s everyday life, school, migration, and health.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Halmstad: Halmstad University Press, 2022. p. 90
Series
Halmstad University Dissertations ; 90
Keywords
Culture, ethnography, everyday racism, health, materiality, migrant positions, migration, photovoice, race, spatiality, temporality, translocational positionality, well-being, young people
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Other Health Sciences Sociology Cultural Studies Ethnology
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urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48069 (URN)978-91-88749-90-1 (ISBN)978-91-88749-89-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2022-10-07, Baertlingsalen, Visionen, Kristian IV:s väg 3, Halmstad, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2022-09-16 Created: 2022-09-16 Last updated: 2023-03-07Bibliographically approved

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