Immigrant Integration and Vaccine Hesitancy Among Somali Immigrants in Stockholm

Sarah Valdez ()
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Sarah Valdez: Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University

Chapter Chapter 14 in Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World, 2023, pp 365-383 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract When immigrants are segregated, their integration can be hindered because they are cut off from social networks that contain valuable sources of cultural capital that could otherwise help them adapt to their new home. Therefore, the communities that immigrants live in can have important consequences for their integration. Some neighborhoods, as a function of demographic composition or urban design, encourage inter-ethnic interaction, while others inhibit it. In this chapter, I examine two neighborhoods known to house a group identified as vaccine hesitant—Somali immigrants in northern Stockholm—in order to provide insights into the compositional and built environment factors that may lead to this group’s deviation from the norm, signaling low levels of integration. I show that the group is quite residentially segregated and also argue that the community may be undergoing a transition into a ghetto, which would further impede integration.

Keywords: Integration; Enclaves; Built environment; Segregation; Vaccine hesitancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19153-4_14

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