FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Migration seminar: Sexual and reproductive health equity in Sweden: an exploration of policy-level challenges
Thursday 23 January, 13:15 - 15:00
Niagara, 9th floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, or zoom
Welcome to the Migration seminar:
Sexual and reproductive health equity in Sweden: an exploration of policy-level challenges
Speaker
Nada Amroussia, Researcher in Health and Society, Department of Social Work, Malmö University
Abstract
The thesis explores potential challenges to achieving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) equity in Sweden, focusing on young people with migration experience. It comprises three studies: a policy analysis and two interview studies conducted in Southern Sweden, one involving young people with migration experience and the other involving healthcare providers.
This seminar will focus on the policy analysis study that examined how migrants were represented in the discourses embedded within Swedish sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)-related policies, and how migrants’ SRHR-related issues were framed and addressed within these discourses. To this end, 54 policy documents were examined using critical discourse analysis.
The results show how migrants’ discursive representation in Swedish SRHR-related policies is often associated with the concept of vulnerability. Moreover, a discourse of otherness appears when discussing what is defined as honor-related violence and oppression. The results also indicate that framing migrants’ issues with regard to SRHR oscillates between two competing discourses. The first one tends to prioritize the structural level, as mainly reflected in adopting the human rights-based discourse, whereas the second tends to frame migrants’ SRHR issues and needs as individual issues requiring individual-level solutions.
Attendance:
This is a hybrid seminar, you are welcome to connect via Zoom or join us at MIM seminar room, floor 9, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1. To attend on campus, please gather by the reception area at 13.05.
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