Health in Negotiation: Cultural Analytical Perspective on Health and Inequalities in The Swedish Asylum Context

This doctoral research addresses the complex and multifaceted
relation between ‘irregular’ migration and the phenomenon of
health inequalities. The aim is to provide a cultural analytical
account of the ways in which people who undergo the asylum
process in Sweden navigate, negotiate, and practice health in
uncertain times. Through an ethnographic investigation into a
group of asylum seekers’ embodied experiences of evaluating
health, assessing risk, and preventing illness before and during
the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explores how ambiguities of
the asylum process is perceived and responded to by those who
hope to gain membership of the new society.