Narrative, Nature-Based Participatory Action Research (PAR) among Female Turkish Migrants in Denmark: Reflections on Methodological Benefits and Challenges

Anne Leonora Blaakilde () and Karen Christensen
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Anne Leonora Blaakilde: Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Karen Christensen: Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Societies, 2024, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Migrants of non-European origin tend to suffer more from diabetes, obesity and other chronic ailments compared to the native population. A group of female Turkish migrants in ill health, living in Denmark, were invited to join a session of eleven weekly meetings in natural surroundings, including yoga, bonfires and gathering fruits and herbs. The women were invited to suggest activities, and every meeting included dialogues focusing on their everyday life, interests and experiences. Two PAR researchers facilitated the meetings together with an interpreter. This article presents the methods and results of this PAR research and discusses the methodological ethnographic balance between approaching the migrants’ weaknesses in terms of their illness and migratory challenges on the one hand and, on the other, their transnational resources as workers, household keepers and kin keepers.

Keywords: participatory action research; health of Turkish migrants; nature-based health intervention; marginalized and vulnerable female migrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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