Initially exploring research on the health aspects of migration, the text highlights some of the weak points in this area. The author then presents a qualitative study that was carried out within the ...program titled Together for Health as well as some of the findings relating to people with migration experience. Analyzed are certain obstacles that they have to face when assessing the health care system, and once they are already within it. In conclusion, the article presents certain attempts, which have emerged in the course of this program, at bridging these obstacles.
The article is based on a study examining how well people know the problem of those who had been removed from the register of Slovene citizens and how they are perceived. 142 informants, who had ...not been deleted from the register, participated in the inquiry consisting of fifteen questions and subquestions. The inquiry was composed by students of the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty of Arts and was prepared for the subject course Anthropology of Migrations. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Velika Kladuša, mesto v Bosni in Hercegovini ob meji s Hrvaško, se sooča z množico migrantov/beguncev in postaja prizorišče večplastne tenzije med spontanim gostoljubjem lokalnega prebivalstva ter ...čedalje bolj restriktivnimi (evropskimi in lokalnimi) politikami. Te ne kriminalizirajo le migrantov/beguncev, temveč tudi vse oblike solidarnosti z njimi. Osrednja tema prispevka je analiza dinamik, ki se vzpostavijo v razpetosti gostoljubja med javnim in zasebnim. Kot je pokazala analiza terenskega gradiva iz Velike Kladuše, ta odnos zaznamuje intenziven vstop državnih politik na polje gostoljubja, ki transformira lokalne prakse gostoljubja do migrantov/beguncev. Na podlagi terenskega gradiva je prikazan obrat iz faze odprtega vfazo kriminaliziranega gostoljubja do migrantov/beguncev, pri čemer je v odzivih prebivalcev Velike Kladuše mogoče opaziti, da se nekateri povsem podrejajo krimina izaciji gostoljubja, drugi z njo barantajo, tretji pa se ji odkrito upirajo. V Veliki Kladuši se tako sočasno izvajajo represivne prakse evropske migracijske politike in različne oblike upora proti tem politikam. Te se udejanjajo v spontanih gostoljubnih praksah lokalnega prebivalstva, v aktivizmu čedalje bolj kriminaliziranih mednarodnih prostovoljcev ter v vztrajnosti in odločenosti migrantov/beguncev, da bodo - vsemu navkljub - vendarle prečkali mejo in se prebili v Evropo.
The article examines how discourses of hospitality towards migrants/refugees are changing in Velika Kladuša, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the Croatian border. Since 2018, this city has ...been confronted with the presence of a large number of people on the move, and has seen the development of a multi-layered tension between the spontaneous hospitality of the local population and the increasingly repressive policies of the European Union and restrictive local measures that criminalize not only migrants/refugees but also all forms of solidarity with them. In the introductory part of the article, the concept of hospitality is briefly analysed on the basis of concepts presented in various anthropological sources as well as in contemporary research on migration and hospitality. In the succeeding chapters we explore the dynamics that arise where hospitality intersects with the public and the private spheres. Our fieldwork material from Velika Kladuša have shown that the attitude of the local population towards migrants/refugees is influenced by the interference of authorities (police, inspectors, etc.) in the area of hospitality, and indicates a transformation of local hospitality practices towards migrants/refugees, which we have defined as a shift from open to criminalized hospitality. Under these changed circumstances, some residents of Velika Kladuša react to the criminalization of hospitality with acceptance, some by negotiating with it and others by openly opposing it.
The paper deals with medical aspects of migration by first focusing on legal, economic and socio-cultural factors that threaten migrants’ health and by then identifying how these factors affect ...access to medical facilities. Using the case of Slovenia, I will prove that, despite apparently formally regulated access to health services, migrants often remain without health care or without medical citizenship. Because of the frequent inability of migrants to access their formally guaranteed rights, it is crucial to assess how they are perceived by health workers - the second part of the article therefore analyses some of their responses.
In the article we present our research on health care provided to female asylum seekers in Slovenia, and more specifically, analysis of some of their experiences when searching for medical help in ...the field of gynecology and obstetrics. In the introduction we briefly present general aspects of female migrations and discuss the complexity of pregnant migrants/refugees through a broader context, describing some crucial aspects of their health issues related to pregnancy. We then show how in the context of Slovene health care system their vulnerability is emphasized through three main levels of obstacles. Through qualitative research with ten asylum seekers we demonstrate that the first level of obstacles is due to their hindered access to healthcare institutions. Despite that legislation in Slovenia secures equal health rights to the majority of pregnant asylum seekers as to nationals, these women experience many difficulties when searching for health care. In the second level no dissemination of information concerning their entitlements and use of health service is exposed. With the third level we analyse language barriers that are related to language misunderstanding and the lack of professional interpreters/intercultural mediators.
Podobnih poskusov sva se leta 2009 lotili z organizacijo mednarodnega znanstvenega simpozija Medicinska antropologija in biomedicina v sodelovanju?, leta 2012 pa z organizacijo znanstvenega posveta ...Medicinska antropologija v Sloveniji: Raziskave, refleksije, dileme; oba sta potekala pod okriljem Oddelka za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo Filozofske fakultete v Ljubljani. Četrtič pa zato, da bi prispevali k terminološkemu preverjanju konceptov (med drugim tudi medicinske antropologije, ki ostaja polemično in pristransko poimenovanje) in vzpostavljanju slovenske terminologije (kot so družbeno...
The article seeks to stimulate dialogue about the evaluation of cultural competence in healthcare. The first part of the paper presents the different attempts to measure cultural competence in the ...field of healthcare and critically analyses the problems that arise concerning the use of instruments that measure the cultural competence of health providers. The second part of the article focuses on the evaluation process of the first cultural competence educational programme for healthcare workers in Slovenia, serving as an example to demonstrate the importance of complementing quantitative methods with qualitative ones and to emphasize the need to shift the focus from measuring the cultural competence of individual healthcare workers to the evaluation of educator performances, patient perspectives, and the cultural competence of healthcare institutions as a whole.
In an interview, Gianfranco Schiavone, President of the Italian Solidarity Consortium ICS (Consorzio Italiano di Solidarietà - Ufficio Rifugiati Onlus) in Trieste, presents a decentralized model of ...reception and accommodation of asylum seekers which is considered "good practice" in Italy as well as in Europe. The model is based on the idea that it is necessary to integrate asylum seekers into the local environment from the beginning and provide them with as much autonomy as possible in their everyday life. Experience in Trieste shows that, compared with the centralized model of accommodation (reception centres for asylum seekers), the dispersed forms of accommodation (apartments and other community-based living arrangements) offer a better quality of life for asylum seekers. At the same time, this approach results in less tension within the local community and is better in terms of costs. In addition, Schiavone talks about changes in future European policies. He considers whether Slovenia will continue to implement the current centralized model, and proposes the introduction of diversified forms of accommodation, which could have similar benefits to those seen in the Trieste model.
O nastajanju številke Čebron, Uršula Lipovec; Pistotnik, Sara
Časopis za kritiko znanosti,
01/2016
264
Journal Article
Recenzirano
It rarely happens that an issue of Casopis za Kritiko Znanosti is created as an open platform that has the potential to respond directly to relevant social events. When we started to create this ...issue well over two years ago, in the belief that migration is one of the key issues of today, we were unpleasantly surprised by the responses of the narrower and wider surroundings. More recently, the field of migration and refugees for the general public seemed a very marginal topic. It seems that the key issues in this field have been exhausted, which was allegedly confirmed by the absence of migrant and refugee studies in Slovenia.
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