Hlutdeild innflytjenda í umönnun eldra fólks og í heilbrigðisþjónustu

Jan Ifversen, prófessor í Evrópufræðum við Árósarháskóla, flytur erindið „Hlutdeild innflytjenda í umönnun eldra fólks og í heilbrigðisþjónustu" ("Migrant agency and transcultural creativity in elderly care") á vegum Stofnunar Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur í erlendum tungumálum og Félagsráðgjafardeildar. Erindið verður flutt á ensku.

Haldið á Heimasvæði tungumálanna á 2. hæð í Veröld - húsi Vigdísar, 23. október kl. 12:00-13:15. Einnig verður hægt að fylgjast með í streymi á Zoom.

Stutt ágrip á íslensku 

Lýðfræðilegar breytingar á norðurslóðum skapa áskoranir fyrir öldrunarþjónustu vegna skorts á starfsfólki. Í Danmörku er búist við að innan fimm ára muni skorta allt að 20% starfsfólks í öldrunarþjónustu. Til að fylla í skörðin er reynt að laða að og ráða innflytjendur en á sama tíma er aðlögun þeirra í samfélagið byggð á skorts-nálgun. Í erindinu verður fjallað um að nálgast viðfangsefnið þvermenningarlega og leggja áherslu á gagnkvæm menningaráhrif og nýsköpun. Þessi nálgun miðar að því að viðurkenna þekkingu innflytjendanna sjálfra og samþætta hana í þjálfun og starfshætti í þjónustu við aldrað fólk innan heilbrigðis- og velferðarþjónustunnar.

Lengra ágrip á ensku

Due to demographic changes, most societies in the global north are experiencing dramatic challenges to upholding existing capacities and standards in elderly care. This primarily shows in an increasing lack of health care workers. In Denmark, authorities foresee that within the next five years, that up to 20% of health care workers will be lacking in elderly care. Both local and national governments are focusing on attracting new groups to the sector and particularly persons of migrant background (recent migrants and descendants). The global increase of migrant care workers in the global North is known as the global chain of care. In Denmark, one third of all students at health care colleges were of migrant background in 2020. Introducing migrants and descendants to the society in general typically take place within a discourse on integration which operates within a deficit logic. Newcomers designated as migrants from the global south are casted as lacking skills and knowledge. Integration works as a zero-sum game where migrants must accept their culturally differentiated status. Some educational institutions focus on preparing all parties involved, minority students as well as majority students and teachers through increasing their intercultural competences with the purpose of raising  skills on collaboration in settings marked by high degrees of cultural diversity.   While interculturality indicates a step away from simple integration, it still risks maintaining professional relations on a stage of cultural containers.  I therefore propose to shift strategies towards handling cultural diversity towards transcultulturality, which more specifically considers how relations can lead to reciprocal influences and the emergence of new knowledge. With the emphasis on transgression, transculturality strives at co-creations to moving beyond existing frames. The goal is to promote innovation.  Inspired by postcolonial thinking, I propose to reconceptualize asymmetrical relations to acknowledge the cultural and entrepreneurial skills of culturally marginalized groups. Through processes that are sometimes termed creolization, marginalized groups have demonstrated how resistance towards dominance can be combined with cultural and epistemological creativity. In my talk. I will outline how transculturality in training of health care students based on cultural knowledge on caring, intergenerational relations and aging provided by the migrant students can be brought to impact on existing curricula and teaching practices with the purpose of recognizing migrant students as carriers of knowledge of high relevance for the profession and of innovating existing care knowledge. This project will be carried out as action research with the health care college in Aarhus.