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Everyday navigation between adaptation and resistance: How young people negotiate their well-being in relation to assigned migrant positions in school
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4515-6634
Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: PLOS ONE, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 18, no 2, p. 1-20, article id e0279762Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Concerning the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015 and how it affected the position of young migrants in society, researchers have underscored the value of studies challenging one-sided images of migrant youth. This study examines how migrant positions are constituted, negotiated, and related to young people’s well-being. The study was undertaken using an ethnographic approach combined with the theoretical concept of translocational positionality to acknowledge how positions are created through historical and political processes and, at the same time, are context-dependent over time and space and thus contain incongruities. Our findings show how the newly arrived youth used multiple ways to navigate the school’s everyday life and ascribed migrant positions to achieve well-being as illustrated through the distancing, adapting, defense, and the contradictory positions. Based on our findings, we understand the negotiations that occur in forming migrant positions within the school as asymmetric. At the same time, the youths’ diverse and often contradictory positionality showed in various ways the striving for increased agency and well-being.

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San Francisco, CA: Public Library of Science , 2023. Vol. 18, no 2, p. 1-20, article id e0279762
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Medical and Health Sciences Social Sciences Ethnology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48067DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279762ISI: 001047063700026Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85148302386OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-48067DiVA, id: diva2:1696321
Available from: 2022-09-16 Created: 2022-09-16 Last updated: 2023-10-05Bibliographically 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.

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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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