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Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19
Immigrants have been found to be disproportionately impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Our study, exploring the experiences of immigrants in Norway during the pandemic, is based on interviews and focus group discussions with 10 and 21 immigrants, respectively. Our analysis showe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35280118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2022.100089 |
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author | Arora, Sanjana Bø, Bodil Tjoflåt, Ingrid Eslen-Ziya, Hande |
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description | Immigrants have been found to be disproportionately impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Our study, exploring the experiences of immigrants in Norway during the pandemic, is based on interviews and focus group discussions with 10 and 21 immigrants, respectively. Our analysis showed that participants perceived the circumstances induced by the pandemic to be difficult and voiced the challenges experienced. Their experiences encompassed social, economic, and the public sphere, where immigrants felt themselves to be in more vulnerable positions than before the pandemic. Our analysis identified four main themes: 1) Feeling stagnated, 2) Perceptions towards government and health authorities, 3) Boundaries of us vs them, and 4) Coping. We conclude our paper by stating that government and health authorities should consider both short-term and long-term consequence of the pandemic to mitigate impact on communities at risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-88979752022-03-07 Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19 Arora, Sanjana Bø, Bodil Tjoflåt, Ingrid Eslen-Ziya, Hande J Migr Health Article Immigrants have been found to be disproportionately impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Our study, exploring the experiences of immigrants in Norway during the pandemic, is based on interviews and focus group discussions with 10 and 21 immigrants, respectively. Our analysis showed that participants perceived the circumstances induced by the pandemic to be difficult and voiced the challenges experienced. Their experiences encompassed social, economic, and the public sphere, where immigrants felt themselves to be in more vulnerable positions than before the pandemic. Our analysis identified four main themes: 1) Feeling stagnated, 2) Perceptions towards government and health authorities, 3) Boundaries of us vs them, and 4) Coping. We conclude our paper by stating that government and health authorities should consider both short-term and long-term consequence of the pandemic to mitigate impact on communities at risk. Elsevier 2022-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8897975/ /pubmed/35280118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2022.100089 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Arora, Sanjana Bø, Bodil Tjoflåt, Ingrid Eslen-Ziya, Hande Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19 |
title | Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19 |
title_full | Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19 |
title_short | Immigrants in Norway: Resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of COVID-19 |
title_sort | immigrants in norway: resilience, challenges and vulnerabilities in times of covid-19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35280118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2022.100089 |
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