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"Thinking about the future, what's gonna happen?": How young people in Sweden who neither work nor study perceive life experiences in relation to health and well-being.
Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsa och rehabilitering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4515-6634
Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University , Umeå, Sweden.
Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsa och rehabilitering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3876-7202
2018 (English)In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, ISSN 1748-2623, E-ISSN 1748-2631, Vol. 13, no 1, article id 1422662Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore how young people in Sweden who neither work nor study perceive life experiences in relation to health and well-being.

Methods: A task-based interview technique was used and data was analysed with qualitative content analysis. Interviews were conducted with 16 participants aged 16-20 who were unemployed and not eligible for upper secondary school, or who had dropped out of school.

Results: Three themes emerged from the analysis illustrating how the young people perceive their life experiences in relation to health and well-being: Struggling with hardships in the absence of caring connections, Feeling good when closely connected to others, and Being forced to question what has been taken for granted. Each theme consists of 2-3 subthemes.

Conclusion: Based on the young people's narrated experiences health can be understood as: something that is created in relation to others and in relation to the social and cultural context; as something dynamic and changeable; as the ability to adapt and respond to challenges; and finally as something existing on a collective as well as an individual level. Implications for school, social services and health promotion initiatives are discussed, with an emphasis on working with young people.

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Taylor & Francis , 2018. Vol. 13, no 1, article id 1422662
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Other Health Sciences
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Health Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45564DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2017.1422662ISI: 000423213000001PubMedID: 29336705Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85045252949OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-45564DiVA, id: diva2:1592973
Available from: 2021-09-10 Created: 2021-09-10 Last updated: 2022-09-16Bibliographically 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)
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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.

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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
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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)
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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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