This predominantly empirical dissertation deals with how socio-economic living conditions and immigrant-specific factors can be linked to immigrants’ mental ill health. It is also explored how cultural representations can affect stress and whether mental ill health is expressed differently among immigrants from Iraq and Iran than among individuals of Nordic origin. Moreover, a conceptual analysis is conducted, where a phenomenological conceptualisation of stress is outlined with a special focus on how this stress approach can be related to culture and migration. The empirical material consists of eleven in-depth interviews with Iraqi and Iranian immigrant women and two population-based surveys. The main findings of this thesis suggest as fo...
Background: In spite of restrictions in Swedish immigration policy duringthe 1990s, the foreign-born...
Bakgrund: Immigranter, flyktingar, asylsökande och papperslösa tillhör samhällets mest sårbara ...
Abstract Objective Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social det...
There is an influx of immigrants to Europe and there exist a huge gap between their pre-migration ex...
AbstractThe aim of this article is to examination of the relation between acculturation stress and m...
Migration has been highly increasing at an international level since the last decades. The process o...
Abstract Aims: To analyse the influence of migration status (country of birth/ethnicity), accultura-...
Inledning: Antalet flyktingar har ökat de senaste åren i Europa och främst i länder som Tyskland, Sv...
The aim of this study was to investigate the individual meaning of experiences of migration and day-...
Poor mental health is common among migrants. This has been explained by migration-related and socio-...
Bakgrund: Idag finns det över 60 miljoner flyktingar i världen som flyr på grund av krig, våld, förf...
Objective: The traditionally homogenous Norwegian population is increasingly becoming a multiethnic ...
The global economic crisis of the previous decade has accelerated internal mobility in the European ...
Mental health promotion is an important public health issue which warrants increased and immediate a...
ObjectiveHousing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social determinants ...
Background: In spite of restrictions in Swedish immigration policy duringthe 1990s, the foreign-born...
Bakgrund: Immigranter, flyktingar, asylsökande och papperslösa tillhör samhällets mest sårbara ...
Abstract Objective Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social det...
There is an influx of immigrants to Europe and there exist a huge gap between their pre-migration ex...
AbstractThe aim of this article is to examination of the relation between acculturation stress and m...
Migration has been highly increasing at an international level since the last decades. The process o...
Abstract Aims: To analyse the influence of migration status (country of birth/ethnicity), accultura-...
Inledning: Antalet flyktingar har ökat de senaste åren i Europa och främst i länder som Tyskland, Sv...
The aim of this study was to investigate the individual meaning of experiences of migration and day-...
Poor mental health is common among migrants. This has been explained by migration-related and socio-...
Bakgrund: Idag finns det över 60 miljoner flyktingar i världen som flyr på grund av krig, våld, förf...
Objective: The traditionally homogenous Norwegian population is increasingly becoming a multiethnic ...
The global economic crisis of the previous decade has accelerated internal mobility in the European ...
Mental health promotion is an important public health issue which warrants increased and immediate a...
ObjectiveHousing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social determinants ...
Background: In spite of restrictions in Swedish immigration policy duringthe 1990s, the foreign-born...
Bakgrund: Immigranter, flyktingar, asylsökande och papperslösa tillhör samhällets mest sårbara ...
Abstract Objective Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social det...