Health Care, Ethnicity and War: Young Immigrants with War Experiences in Institutional Care in Sweden
2016 (English)In: World Congress on Health and Medical Sociology. Keynote Forum. Las Vegas, USA (20160919-20160920), Las Vegas, 2016, p. 39-39Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The purpose of the study is (1) to analyze narratives of youth that have experienced war, taken refuge in Sweden, and taken into custody and placed in institutions; (2) to analyze the organization of work cared for youth with war experiences ininstitutional care. The material of the study is gathered through interviews and conversations with youngsters in institutional care with war experience and through interviews and conversations with staff who work among youth with war experiences in institutional care. The theoretical perspective is determined from an ethno-methodological influenced interaction. Special attention will be given to the social comparisons and stories about health care, ethnicity and war which are expressed in the interviews.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Las Vegas, 2016. p. 39-39
Keywords [en]
Health Sociology, Medical Sociology, Health Care, Health, Illness, War Sociology, Conflict Sociology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Qualitative Method, Identity, Morality, Ethnic Conflicts, War, Youth, Institution, Interviews, Field Work, Refugee, Stigma, Social Comparison, Symbolic Interaction, Ethics, Ethnomethodology, Religion, Migration, Migrant, Diaspora, Nationality, Transition, Unaccompanied Child Refugees.
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Research subject
Social Sciences, Social Psychology; Social Sciences, Social Work; Social Sciences, Sociology; Pedagogics and Educational Sciences, Substance Abuse Treatment; Pedagogics and Educational Sciences, Pedagogics; Pedagogics and Educational Sciences, Special Education
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-56987DOI: 10.4172/2380-5439.C1.001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-56987DiVA, id: diva2:997095
Conference
World Congress on Health and Medical Sociology, Conference Series LLC of USA, Las Vegas, USA (20160919-20160920)
Note
Keynote Contribution
2016-09-292016-09-292016-10-06Bibliographically approved