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Migrant narratives of health and well-being : Challenging ‘othering’ processes through photo-elicitation interviews

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This paper concerns the use of photo-elicitation interviews in constructing migrant narratives of health and well-being. It argues that photo-elicitation can be particularly effective in producing nuanced understandings about relationships among culture, place and health. It explores how, through this method, subject-centred understandings of health and well-being are able to challenge dominant discursive constructions that tend to ‘other’ and potentially stereotype minority groups in explanations of health behaviour. The paper includes discussion of issues of power and representation in research with marginalized populations, which further elaborates the value of photo-elicitation in developing a non-essentializing view of minority groups. The paper concludes with comment on the potential value of this method in the formulation of health and social policies aiming to incorporate the views and needs of marginalized or minority groups.

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Critical Social Policy

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2012

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English

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02610183

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Vol. 32 no. 1, February 2012,pp. 106-125

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Representation
Policy
Migrant narratives of health and well-being
Migrant populations
Photo-elicitation

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