Addressing Health Inequalities in Racialized and Socioeconomic Disadvantaged Areas in Sweden

Understanding Liminality and Legal Precarity | Centre for Migration Studies Speaker Series 2025-26

Speaker: Margarita Mondaca, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, Umeå Universitet

In Sweden, growing social inequality and residential segregation profoundly shape health and everyday life. Historically, structurally, and institutionally rooted neglect is lived, reproduced, and contested within racialized, socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. Drawing on emerging insights from community-engaged scholarship, this work explores intersectional liminalities—the in-between spaces where agency and resistance coexist with harmful structural mechanisms, such as structural violence and restrictive mobility policies. These tensions reveal the contingent nature of the boundaries of lived citizenship and participation. By interrogating what is mobilized and what remains untouched in migration scholarship, this talk will call for interrogating the liminality of community-engaged scholarship.

A hybrid event at IKBLC, Dodson Room (302) - lunch provided at 11:45