Session 2 - How Institutional Racism Damages Migrants' Health and Conceptual unclarity about Covid-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden - implications for health policy.
Invited speakers:
Anna Bredström, Linköping University
Frances Webber, Institute of Race Relations, UK
Frances Webber’s talk How Institutional Racism Damages Migrants’ Health
will present the Institute for Race Relations’ (IRR) submission to the
Permanent People’s Tribunal hearing on violations of migrants right to
health which took place in Berlin in October 2020. Webber is a UK-based
human rights lawyer whose work with the Institute of Race Relations
(IRR) stretches over several decades. She is the author of Borderline
justice: the fight for refugee and migrant rights (2012) as well as
numerous papers including co-authoring Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of
160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe (2015).
Anna Bredström presents her article-in-progress called Conceptual unclarity about Covid-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden - implications for health policy.
Analyzing the discourse around ethnic difference in relation to
Covid-19, she will focus on how these differences are interpreted
differently by experts and others in decision-making positions, and what
these different understandings of ethnic health disparities may have
for handling the pandemic. The talk relates both to precision medicine
and the discussion around multicultural health care and equal health.
The seminar is the second in a series of four, led by the Precision Health and Everyday Democracy network.