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- Hosseini, Mostafa, 1988
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A Portrait of Life: A Poetic Exploration of Young Migrants’ Narratives of Nostalgia, Struggles, and Belonging in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Presentation at Narratives of Migration 16th June 2023. Oxford University, Faculty of English Language and Literature.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Poetry can serve different purposes: it can be therapeutic, a testimony, or a rebellious expression of injustice. In my presentation, I will explore the lived experiences of 13 Afghan young men and women referred to as "Unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children" in Sweden. To bring their stories to life, I will adapt an art-based research approach that involves creating I-poems and Found poems from participants' migration and resettlement narratives. Additionally, I will present and read the poems I have written based on transcribed interviews with the participants. Those poems highlight various challenges associated with migration and resettlement, including loneliness, in betweenness, nostalgia, belonging, and melancholia. Furthermore, they also shed light on participants' aspirations to rebuild their lives in a new country after the process of forced migration.
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- Hosseini, Mostafa, 1988, et al.
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Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors’ understandings of integration. An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
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Ingår i: Smith College studies in social work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0037-7317 .- 1553-0426. ; 91:3, s. 165-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a lack of knowledge concerning how unaccompanied refugee minors (UMs) perceive integration. This study concerns how Afghan UMs in Sweden understand integration. Seven young men, age 18–23, who came to Sweden as UMs, participated in semi-structured interviews, analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The results showed that integration was understood as a process in which relationships, connectedness, and concrete support are fundamental. Education, employment, and leisure activities were important for integration. Integration also improved by contributing to the new country, for example, through paying taxes or voluntary work. We discuss how integration could be supported, for example, through making UMs co-creators of interventions and through acknowledging the importance of meaningful activities, relationships, and concrete support.
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- Hosseini, Mostafa, 1988, et al.
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Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis. : Ensamkommande asylsökande afghanska flickors förståelse av integration. En tolkande fenomenologisk analys
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 25:2, s. 263-275
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a need for increased knowledge regarding refugee women’s experiences of integration. This study concerns young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking (UAS) girls, and how they understand integration and their everyday life. Six young women, age 19–24, who came to Sweden as UAS children in the period 2013–2015 participated in semi-structured interviews, which were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Five themes emerged: Relationships to family members; Being a minority woman; The importance of information; Integrating cultures; and Dreams and agency. Their everyday lives could be difficult, for example since interventions often targeted and were dominated by boys and men. Moreover, the participants sensed that they were in contradictory positions. While striving to integrate Swedish and Afghan customs they described expectations from parents and the Afghan community to live according to Afghan traditions. Despite being in vulnerable positions, they experienced independence and the capacity to change their lives and sought to contribute to equal rights for women. The participants described integration as a process, enhanced by their personal agency and by their social, relational, and material contexts. Based on the results, we discuss how integration can be supported.
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- Hosseini, Mostafa, 1988
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Longing for Home or Promising of One: A Found Poem Exploration of Young Female Migrant’s Experiences of Displacement—Voices From Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: Qualitative Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1077-8004 .- 1552-7565. ; 30:3-4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Poetry can fulfill different purposes—it can be therapeutic, a testimony, or a rebellious expression of injustice. This article presents a thematic found poem exploration, of six Afghan female migrants, aged 19 to 24. They arrived in Sweden between 2013 and 2016. I have translated the interviews verbatim from Dari to Swedish and finally into English. The following poems reflect a period of my participants’ lives related to the complexity of uprootedness, nostalgia, and their struggles of in-betweenness and belonging. In addition, it also reflects their hope, aspirations, and commitments of remaking home and rebuilding life.
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- Hosseini, Mostafa, 1988, et al.
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"Through my poems, I wanted a sense of recognition": Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors' experiences of poetic writing, migration, and resettlement
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Poetry Therapy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0889-3675 .- 1567-2344. ; 36:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper concerns young adults who came to Sweden from Afghanistan as unaccompanied refugee minors (UMs) and their engagement with poetry and other creative activities. The aim was to explore how UMs use poetic writing and other creative activities to handle resettlement challenges. Seven young men and six young women, aged 18-24, participated in semi-structured interviews. The material was analyzed using the three components of poetry therapy, developed by Mazza. Three themes were identified: (1) Encouragement; (2) Creative expressions as a "safe place"; and (3) A sense of recognition. Through creative expressions, our participants could understand and handle the emotional difficulties and the insecurity associated with resettlement. Poetic writing was a way to convey personal experiences of injustices, a source of self-understanding, and a way to establish new social networks. We discuss and present suggestions on how poetry and other creative activities can be integrated in interventions toward UMs.
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- Sbarra, AN, et al.
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Mapping routine measles vaccination in low- and middle-income countries
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Ingår i: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1476-4687 .- 0028-0836. ; 589:7842, s. 415-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The safe, highly effective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children under 5 years old, and more than 99% of both occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)1–4. Globally comparable, annual, local estimates of routine first-dose measles-containing vaccine (MCV1) coverage are critical for understanding geographically precise immunity patterns, progress towards the targets of the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), and high-risk areas amid disruptions to vaccination programmes caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)5–8. Here we generated annual estimates of routine childhood MCV1 coverage at 5 × 5-km2pixel and second administrative levels from 2000 to 2019 in 101 LMICs, quantified geographical inequality and assessed vaccination status by geographical remoteness. After widespread MCV1 gains from 2000 to 2010, coverage regressed in more than half of the districts between 2010 and 2019, leaving many LMICs far from the GVAP goal of 80% coverage in all districts by 2019. MCV1 coverage was lower in rural than in urban locations, although a larger proportion of unvaccinated children overall lived in urban locations; strategies to provide essential vaccination services should address both geographical contexts. These results provide a tool for decision-makers to strengthen routine MCV1 immunization programmes and provide equitable disease protection for all children.
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