Jointly enclosed in-between: the collective meaning of liminality in refugees' and other migrants' mental health care
Anthropol Med. 2024 Apr 15:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2339705. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople on the move are increasingly immobilised between and within state borders, having left 'there' but not allowed to be fully 'here'. This paper presents a nuanced examination of this state of enforced in--betweenness, exploring how refugees and other migrants negotiate collective existence through, despite, and alongside liminality. Drawing on ethnographic data collected at a Swiss Red Cross psychotraumatology centre, the study identifies factors that impede and facilitate the formation of collective identities, with tem...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Laura Peter Source Type: research
Politics, law and a lack of sperm: single women and fertility treatment in the Swedish health system
Anthropol Med. 2024 Feb 27:1-15. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2274684. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn 2016 Swedish law was amended to allow single women to access fertility treatment with donor sperm. In this paper, based on interviews, document analysis and autoethnographic insights, I examine the implementation of this law using human rights approaches, specifically the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality framework (AAAQ Framework). While the law extended the scope of reproductive rights, the health system was unprepared. Five years on, women seek care in the private sector or continue to travel abroa...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rachel Irwin Source Type: research
