Space in Pentecostal Healing Practices among Ghanaian Migrants in London

Krause, Kristine

doi:10.1080/01459740.2013.846339

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“…However, our present study did not examine the COVID-19 acceptance or hesitancy factors based on the constructs of the HBM. This is because as our findings show using such models alone to evaluate health decisions by people could be inadequate as their decisions are influenced also by their current living situation, advice from friends or experts, past experiences and embodied routines ( 34 ).…”

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Determinants and Variations of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Responses Among Minority Ethnic Groups in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Antwi‐Berko

Bakuri

Otabil

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has disrupted life worldwide in an unprecedented manner. Over the period, scientific breakthroughs have resulted in the rollout of many vaccination programmes to protect against the disease, reduce the fear and ease public health restrictions for lives to return to some normalcy. The aim of this study was to identify the factors responsible for COVID-19 vaccine acceptance or vaccine hesitancy and to develop a framework to improve vaccine uptake in the Ghanaian-Dutch, Afro and Hindustani Surinamese-Dutch communities in Amsterdam. Using a mixed method approach, this community-based cross-sectional survey recruited 160 respondents consisting of 57 Ghanaian-Dutch, 54 Afro Surinamese-Dutch and 49 Hindustani-Dutch residents in Amsterdam. Our findings showed that the choice of a vaccine as well as the likelihood of self-reported willingness to receive a vaccine is highly dependent on vaccine efficacy and safety. Available evidence of high vaccine effectiveness and safety could encourage about 41.3% of the respondents to accept the vaccine. Additionally, 69.6% of the respondents indicated their willingness to accept the vaccine when vaccine passports are made mandatory by the government. Other major factors that could drive the likelihood of accepting the COVID-19 vaccine include travel requirement for vaccination (28.3%), the safety/probability of only minor side effects (26.1%) and recommendation by family and friends (15.2%). The study therefore provides systematic evidence of factors associated with individual preferences toward COVID-19 vaccination. It demonstrates that the needs of each community are unique and specific interventional efforts are urgently needed to address concerns likely to be associated with vaccine hesitancy.

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Determinants and Variations of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Responses Among Minority Ethnic Groups in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Antwi‐Berko

Bakuri

Otabil

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Although in this paper we concentrate on the effects of love, respect, and care in the maintenance of kinship, there are also motivations to be secretive that came up in this research, such as fear of witchcraft, also in relation to an avoidance of triggering jealousy, anger, or violence, to mention few. De Klerk (2012) and Krause (2010) discuss how, in times of misfortune, kinship relations become shaped by processes of concealment; this can relate to such actions as hiding information about the sick from the public to avoid gossip, but also hiding the fact that kin are increasingly unwilling and unavailable to provide care for the sick. These processes signal the shadow sides of kin relations when it comes to care, loyalty, and reciprocity.…”

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Labour of love: Secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands

Bakuri¹,

Spronk

Dijk

2020

Ethnography

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This paper examines the productive role of secrecy in the nexus of transnational mobility, kinship, and intimate relations among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in the Netherlands. Whereas secrecy is typically understood as one person concealing knowledge from another, implying the latter’s passivity, we argue that secrecy depends on mutually constitutive interactions. Secrecy is explored as the result of an interaction between those who obscure knowledge in creative ways and those who maintain a not-knowing. The paper analyzes how people negotiate moral expectations regarding sexuality, respect, and loyalty, while also manoeuvring to fulfil their personal aspirations. Especially in kinship relations, when people are bound to each other by moral and social obligations, the management of secrecy often makes people mutually dependent. Secrecy is revealed as skillfully choreographing relations by the ebb and flow of information where kinship, respect, or love and (not-) knowing reinforce another.

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“…This includes living according to strict ethical rules and including prayers in the conduct of their daily lives (Fumanti 2010;Coleman and Maier 2011). 20 Being-born-again in this religious practice is an ever unfinished business which needs to be achieved over and over again in practices of 'hodological care' (Krause and van Dijk 2016), the careful scrutinization of each connection and the securitization of potential harmful ones with the power of the Holy Spirit (Krause 2014(Krause , 2015. Similar to the unfinished project of staying born-again, the initial allergic reaction is unfolding and not yet fully known in its long-term effects to Miriam and her doctors.…”

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Speaking from the blind spot: political subjectivity and articulations of disability

Krause

2018

Critical African Studies

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To become classified as disabled opens up the possibility to access resources. At the same time, it fixes multiple and idiosyncratic experiences of impairment into a circumscribed status of different and lesser. In this article I am thinking about the contradictory nature of classification and citizenship with the complex case of Miriam, a Ghanaian woman who moved to the UK to study. Miriam suffered from increasing impairment of her sight due to long term effects of an allergic reaction to medication while simultaneously losing her legal status. The recognition of her impairment as medical blindness and her engagement with medical specialists over her rare bodily condition resulted in new capabilities, including a new legal status. Her case shows how categorizations such as disability status and permits to stay come together in different positionings. This article suggests understanding political subjectivities not so much as acts of breaking scripts, but as happening simultaneously along different scales ranging from everyday practices to institutionalized forms of support. These multiple enactments of subject positions can be seen as articulations of political subjectivities that turn a damaged body into a right bearing subject. être vues comme des articulations des subjectivités politiques qui changent un corps abîmé en sujet porteur de droits.How can we avoid colluding with and adding to the power and dominance of an order of the normal? (…) how can we avoid becoming involved in its exclusions and its disarticulation of alternative ways of living? (Moser 2005, 668) When Miriam woke up in one of the large London hospitals having been run down by a car for the second time she realized that there was indeed a problem with her sight, although she was not yet prepared to call herself blind. A social worker came to her hospital bed to talk about the white stick and to sign her up for an initial training programme. At this first visit, Miriam simply refused to talk to her, instead turning to face the wall. However, at the next visit she not only listened but also asked some prepared questions. She was also visited by consultants from the dermatology and ophthalmology departments who were very interested in examining her eyes. 'Because I am a rare guinea pig' Miriam 1 told me, 'they have never met a case like me before'. She agreed to be examined by medical students and paid close attention when the consultant explained to his students what had happened to Miriam's eyes. In the late 1990s, Miriam suffered a rare and extreme adverse drug reaction which severely affected the membranes in her eyes. At that point she had just finished her A-levels in her home country Ghana and was treated for malaria-like symptoms with a standard medication. She was the one person in 1-2 million each year who has an adverse reaction to this and other common medications in which the different layers of skin dissolve, just as in cases of severe burns. The body 'burns from the inside out', gets covered with large blisters and the skin ev...

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Space in Pentecostal Healing Practices among Ghanaian Migrants in London

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

Determinants and Variations of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Responses Among Minority Ethnic Groups in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Determinants and Variations of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Responses Among Minority Ethnic Groups in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Labour of love: Secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands

Speaking from the blind spot: political subjectivity and articulations of disability

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