Sweden's War-Traumatized Youth in Care Face Major Integration Gaps
A new study reveals how young war refugees placed in Swedish institutional care experience fragmented health services and cultural disconnects that impede their recovery and integration. The findings spotlight operational failures in how care workers coordinate treatment for vulnerable populations—a problem that directly affects public sector costs and outcomes.
Originaltitel: Health Care, Ethnicity and War: Young Immigrants with War Experiences in Institutional Care in Sweden
<p>The purpose of the study is (1) to analyze narratives of youth that have experienced war, taken refuge in Sweden, and taken into custody and placed in institutions; (2) to analyze the organization of work cared for youth with war experiences ininstitutional care. The material of the study is gathered through interviews and conversations with youngsters in institutional care with war experience and through interviews and conversations with staff who work among youth with war experiences in institutional care. The theoretical perspective is determined from an ethno-methodological influenced interaction. Special attention will be given to the social comparisons and stories about health care, ethnicity and war which are expressed in the interviews.</p>