Rethinking Immunity: An Ethnography of Risk and Migration in Sweden

Medicine Across Borders: Exploration of Grey Zones

“…Lundin & Idvall, 2003;Phillimore, 2020). In this chapter, we analyse the methodological possibilities that ethnographic approaches offer by reviewing how they can, among others, reveal some aspects of perceiving and practising health among those who are considered as hard-to-reach (Mirsalehi 2021(Mirsalehi & 2023. By evaluating the results of our quantitative and ethnographic research 2 and approaching the question reflexively, we also discuss our own methodological failure when investigating health vulnerabilities and care practices in times of crisis, particularly in response to the issue of non-response bias.…”

“…Although access to the 'right' information has been a global challenge and impacted different groups particularly during the pandemic, accessibility to information among our participants is not limited to concerns over preserving their health. The sometimes contradictory sets of guidance presented the participants in our study with not only confusion over expected and accepted performance in a time of crisis, but also a dilemma over their placement in the social ranking when a health crisis strikes (Mirsalehi, 2023). During the pandemic, there appeared debates over prioritising the asylum-seekers in the vaccination programme, as they were considered as a population at the risk of being severely impacted or death caused by the disease (cf.…”