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Klöfvermark, Josefin
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Nordling, V., Klöfvermark, J. & Sigvardsdotter, E. (2020). Föräldraskap efter flykt till ett annat land: Kunskapssammanställning baserad på en kartläggande litteraturöversikt. Huddinge: Röda Korsets Högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Föräldraskap efter flykt till ett annat land: Kunskapssammanställning baserad på en kartläggande litteraturöversikt
2020 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Parenting after forced migration entails specific challenges, especially during the first years after flight, such as reception and social networks in the new country, socioeconomic situation, migration related difficulties, mental ill-health, discrimination, to learn a new language, new norms and expectations, and leading a transnational life. This report is a scoping review with the aim to compile and describe the existing knowledge about the experiences of newly arrived forced migrant parents, as well as key factors that affect parenting during the first year after having fled to another country. PubMed, Sociology Collection and PsychInfo were systematically searched. The report includes 27 articles.

The result of the literature review was systematised into two main themes that were salient in the empirical material: strengths/possibilities and challenges. Strength/possibilities relate to four categories: health and social service, new possibilities, establishing oneself, and networks and family. Challenges relate to the four categories health, establishing oneself, socioeconomic status, and social networks and relationships. Many studies note the importance of access to, as well as accurate information about, health care and social services where the newly arrived parents' situation is taken into account. Fleeing to another country may mean possibilities such as education and to be able to live in peace and freedom. To be able to establish oneself in the new country is a supporting factor for parenting. Family life and social networks are also noted as central supporting factors. On the other hand, lack of information and poor treatment are barriers to access to health care. Several studies report on some form of mental ill health among the parents. To be subjected to new norms for parenting and experiences of discrimination are other challenges for these parents. Many newly arrived parents have low socioeconomic status. Worries related to residence permits may also affect parenting in a negative way.

This scoping review shows that this group of newly arrived parents often lack the stability that the sedentary and settled groups may enjoy. There is a need for parenting support for this group that takes this into account. While not assuming that this group is homogenous, another challenge to consider is mental ill-health among newly arrived parents, not least related to unsafe living conditions and previous traumatic events.

Abstract [sv]

Att vara förälder i en familj som flytt innebär specifika utmaningar, särskilt under de första åren, såsom mottagande och socialt skyddsnät i det nya landet, socioekonomiska förutsättningar, migrationsrelaterade svårigheter, psykisk ohälsa, diskriminering, att tillgodogöra sig ett nytt språk, nya normer och förväntningar, samt att leva transnationellt. Denna rapport redovisar en kartläggande litteraturöversikt med syftet att sammanställa och beskriva den kunskap som finns om nyanlända föräldrars upplevelser och erfarenheter av föräldraskap, samt nyckelfaktorer som påverkar föräldraskapet under de första åren efter att ha flytt till ett annat land. Sökningar gjordes i Pubmed, Sociology collection och Psychinfo. Tjugosju artiklar inkluderades.

Resultatet rapporteras som utmaningar och riskfaktorer i relation till kategorierna hälsa, etablering i det nya landet, socioekonomisk status samt sociala nätverk och familj, samt som möjligheter och skyddsfaktorer i relation till kategorierna hälsa och service, möjligheter i det ny landet, etablering i det nya landet och sociala nätverk och familj. Många studier lyfter vikten av tillgång till, samt god information om, hälso- och sjukvård och social service där nyanlända föräldrars förutsättningar tas i beaktande. Flykten till ett nytt land kan innebära nya möjligheter i form av utbildning och att få leva i fred och frihet. Likaså innebär en god etablering ett stöd i föräldraskapet. Familjelivet och sociala nätverk lyfts som centrala skyddsfaktorer. Brist på information om sjukvård och socialt stöd samt ett bristfälligt bemötande inom hälso- och sjukvården påverkar föräldrarnas tillgång till vård, och i många studier rapporteras någon form av psykisk ohälsa hos föräldrarna. Att förhålla sig till nya normer för föräldraskap samt upplevelser av diskriminering är andra utmaningar för föräldrarna. Många nyanlända föräldrar har även dåliga socioekonomiska förutsättningar. Oro kopplad till uppehållstillstånd kan också innebära begränsningar för föräldraskapet.

Litteraturöversikten visar att denna grupp saknar stora delar av den stabilitet som ofta tas för givet för den mer långvarigt bosatta och/eller bofasta befolkningen. Det finns ett behov av insatser som tar hänsyn till detta. Likaså psykisk ohälsa bland flyktingföräldrar, inte minst relaterad till traumatiska upplevelser och otrygga levnadsvillkor, behöver tas hänsyn till i utformning av insatser, dock utan att anta att alla nyanlända föräldrar har samma behov.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Röda Korsets Högskola, 2020. p. 61
Series
Röda Korsets Högskolas rapportsserie ; 2020:1
Keywords
föräldraskap, flykt, nyanländ, litteraturöversikt
National Category
Health Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-3508 (URN)978-91-983684-3-7 (ISBN)
Funder
Public Health Agency of Sweden
Note

Den här rapporten är framtagen av Röda Korsets Högskola på uppdrag av Folkhälsomyndigheten.

Available from: 2020-11-18 Created: 2020-11-18 Last updated: 2020-11-20Bibliographically approved
Klöfvermark, J., Hjern, A. & Juárez, S. P. (2019). Acculturation or unequal assimilation?: Smoking during pregnancy and duration of residence among migrants in Sweden. SSM - Population Health, 8, Article ID 100416.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Acculturation or unequal assimilation?: Smoking during pregnancy and duration of residence among migrants in Sweden
2019 (English)In: SSM - Population Health, ISSN 2352-8273, Vol. 8, article id 100416Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A growing corpus of evidence reveals that smoking patterns of migrant women tend to converge with that of the host population over time (‘acculturation paradox’). In this paper we aim to adopt a health equity perspective by studying the extent to which this pattern reflects a convergence with the group of natives who are more socioeconomically disadvantaged. Using population-based registers, we study 1,194,296 women who gave birth in Sweden between 1991 and 2012. Using logistic regression, we estimated odds ratios to assess the effect of duration of residence on the association between smoking during pregnancy and women's origin (classified according to inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (iHDI) of the country of birth). Sibling information and multilevel models were used to assess the extent to which our results might be affected by the cross-sectional nature of the data. Smoking during pregnancy increases with duration of residence among migrants from all levels of iHDI to such an extent that they tend to converge or increase in relation to the levels of the Swedish population with low education and low income, leaving behind the native population with high education and income. The results are robust to possible selection bias related to the cross-sectional nature of the data. Ourfindings indicate the need of a health equity perspective and suggest the use of ‘unequal assimilation’ rather than ‘acculturation paradox’ as a more suitable framework to interpret these findings.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2019
Keywords
Assimilation paradox, Acculturation paradox, Tobacco, Migration, Social determinants, Unequal assimilation
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-2833 (URN)10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100416 (DOI)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2016-07128Swedish Research Council, 2018/018-25NordForsk, 7465
Available from: 2019-06-03 Created: 2019-06-03 Last updated: 2019-06-10Bibliographically approved
Klöfvermark, J. (2019). Unga flyktingar i Sverige - psykisk ohälsa och missbruksproblem. In: Mehrdad Darvishpour & Niclas Månsson (Ed.), Ensamkommandes upplevelser & professionellas erfarenheter: integration, inkludering och jämställdhet (pp. 43-58). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Unga flyktingar i Sverige - psykisk ohälsa och missbruksproblem
2019 (Swedish)In: Ensamkommandes upplevelser & professionellas erfarenheter: integration, inkludering och jämställdhet / [ed] Mehrdad Darvishpour & Niclas Månsson, Stockholm: Liber, 2019, p. 43-58Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2019
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-3431 (URN)9789147129263 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-06-23 Created: 2020-06-23 Last updated: 2020-06-23Bibliographically approved
Hjern, A. & Klöfvermark, J. (2017). Barn som anhöriga till flyktingföräldrar med post-traumatisk stress: en systematisk litteraturstudie. Kalmar: Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Barn som anhöriga till flyktingföräldrar med post-traumatisk stress: en systematisk litteraturstudie
2017 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Kalmar: Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga, 2017. p. 33
Series
BSA-rapport ; 2017:1
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-2548 (URN)978-91-87731-47-1 (ISBN)
Note

Detta är den sjätte rapporten i projektet ”Barn som anhöriga”, som genomförs av CHESS vid Stockholms universitet/Karolinska Institutet i samarbete med Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga (Nka) på uppdrag av Socialstyrelsen.

Available from: 2018-02-20 Created: 2018-02-20 Last updated: 2018-02-23Bibliographically approved
Hjern, A., Berg, L., Arat, A., Klöfvermark, J., Manhica, H., Rostila, M., . . . Magnusson, L. (2017). Children as next of kin in Sweden. Kalmar
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Children as next of kin in Sweden
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2017 (English)Report (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Kalmar: , 2017. p. 28
Series
BSA-rapport ; 2017:2
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-2549 (URN)978-91-87731-49-5 (ISBN)
Note

This overview, ‘Children as next of kin in Sweden’ is a summary of eight reports on children as next of kin in Sweden.

Available from: 2018-02-20 Created: 2018-02-20 Last updated: 2019-04-09Bibliographically approved
Hjern, A., Arat, A. & Klöfvermark, J. (2017). Report on differences in outcomes and performance by SES, family type and migrants of different primary care models for children. European Commission
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Report on differences in outcomes and performance by SES, family type and migrants of different primary care models for children
2017 (English)Report (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
European Commission, 2017. p. 99
Series
Models of Child Health Appraised - a study on primary health care in 30 european countries
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-2550 (URN)
Projects
Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project
Note

Work Package 7

Available from: 2018-02-20 Created: 2018-02-20 Last updated: 2018-02-23Bibliographically approved
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