How health and well-being are experienced and conditioned in the daily school life of young people recently migrated to Sweden

SND-ID: 2022-178-1. Version: 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/nfq2-y902

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Ulrika Lögdberg - Halmstad University, School of health and welfare orcid

Research principal

Halmstad University - School of health and welfare rorId

Description

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 empirical material (data) was created through three independent data collections with three different groups of participants. The study participants are males and

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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 empirical material (data) was created through three independent data collections with three different groups of participants. The study participants are males and females (16–20 years old) from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Palestine, Kosovo, and Greece*. The data collection took place in the spring of 2014 (Study I), between February and April 2016 (Study II), and between April and June 2017 (studies III & IV). A qualitative and health-promoting design was used in Study I comprising qualitative task-based interviews focusing on the health and well-being of young people. Photovoice, a participatory research method well-suited for youth participation, was used in Study II. An ethnographic approach was used in Study III and IV, including participant observations, qualitative semi-structured interviews, and more informal conversations documented through field notes.

This dissertation is based on the following scientific articles:
I. Lögdberg, U., Nilsson, B., & Kostenius, C. (2018). “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. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 13(1), 1–12.
II. Lögdberg, U., Nilsson, B., & Kostenius, C. (2020). Young Migrants’ Experiences and Conditions for Health: A Photovoice Study. SAGE Open, 10(2), 1–12.
III. Lögdberg, U., Öhlander, M., & Nilsson, B. (Submitted). Everyday navigation between adaptation and resistance: How young people negotiate their well-being in relation to assigned migrant positions in school.
IV. Lögdberg, U., Öhlander, M., Lindgren, E-C., & Nilsson, B. (Submitted). Social, spatial, and material conditions for mattering: Newly arrived young migrants’ possibilities to matter in everyday life in a Swedish school.

*Participants in Study I comprised 16 young people aged 16–20. Eight were born in Sweden, and eight had immigrated to Sweden in the past couple of years. The dissertation focuses on the newly arrived youths’ perspectives. The eight participants born in Sweden are not counted as participants in the comprehensive summary. However, in Study I, all participants’ perspectives are included in the published article (Study I).

1. A PDF file with Interview transcripts from 18 interviews
2. 16 PDF files with timelines as part of task-based interviews
3. A PDF file with 86 images with associated text taken individually by the participants as well as transcripts from group interviews.
4. A PDF file with field notes from observations and conversations with participants.
5. A PDF file with interview transcripts from six interviews. Show less..

Data contains personal data

Yes

Sensitive personal data

Yes

Type of personal data

Sensitive personal data, direct and indirect identifiers

Code key exists

Yes

Data contain other protected information

Yes: The location of a vulnerable linguistic or ethnic minority, health details of individuals

Language

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Population

The study (I–IV) participants were 46 newly arrived students, 16–20 years old, males and females from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Palestine, Kosovo, and Greece. Some were unaccompanied refugees, and others had come with their families. Some had already received residence permits, were living with family and had a temporary work permit, while others were in the process of seeking asylum. They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds and with varying school experiences. They all attended a Language introduction in different cohorts.

Study design

Observational study

Description of study design

The empirical material (data) was created through three independent data collections, all with a qualitative, exploratory, and health-promoting approach. A qualitative and health-promoting design was used in Study I comprising qualitative task-based interviews focusing on the health and well-being of young people. Photovoice, a participatory research method well-suited for youth participation, was used in Study II. An ethnographic approach was used in Study III and IV, including participant observations, qualitative semi-structured interviews, and more informal conversations documented through field notes.

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive
A purposeful selection strategy was used to capture various perspectives reflecting the young people’s different life situations. The recruitment of participants has taken place in close collaboration with the school.

Time period(s) investigated

2014-01 – 2014-06

2016-02 – 2016-04

2017-04 – 2017-06

Number of individuals/objects

46

Data format / data structure

Data collection
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

School of health and welfare

Funding 1

  • Funding agency: ArctiChildren InNet
  • Funding agency's reference number: 02/2011/069/KO375

Funding 2

  • Funding agency: Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences rorId

Ethics Review

Swedish Ethical Review Authority - Ref. Dnr 2021-01389

Publications

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Lögdberg, U., Nilsson, B., & Kostenius, C. (2020). Young Migrants’ Experiences and Conditions for Health : A Photovoice Study. In SAGE Open (Vol. 10, Issue 2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020920665
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-78909
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020920665
SwePub: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-78909

Lögdberg, U., Nilsson, B., & Kostenius, C. (2018). “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. In International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being (No. 1422662; Vol. 13, Issue 1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2017.1422662
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2017.1422662
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-144840
SwePub: oai:DiVA.org:umu-144840

Lögdberg, U., Öhlander, M., & Nilsson, B. (n.d.). Everyday navigation between adaptation and resistance : How young people negotiate their well-being in relation to assigned migrant positions in school. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48067
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48067
SwePub: oai:DiVA.org:hh-48067

Lögdberg, Ulrika (2022). 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. Halmstad: Halmstad University Press. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48069
ISBN: 9789188749901
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48069
SwePub: oai:DiVA.org:hh-48069

Lögdberg, U., Öhlander, M., Lindgren, E.-C., & Nilsson, B. (n.d.). Social, spatial, and material conditions for mattering : Newly arrived young migrants’ possibilities to matter in everyday life in a Swedish school. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48068
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48068
SwePub: oai:DiVA.org:hh-48068

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Published: 2023-02-03