Classifying the unclassifiable. Ethnicity in Swedish registers and epidemiological knowledge production, 1950–2020
Project Leader
- Ida Al Fakir
Department
- Department of Movement, Culture and Society
Research Funders
- Swedish Research Council
Abstract
Below you can read summaries about the project in English and/or Swedish. The information is taken from the publication database DiVA.
The purpose is to explore how alternative epidemiological practices of classification and categorisation evolved as ethnicity ceased to be a viable category.
The project is divided into four phases:
1)Mapping classifications and categories pertaining to ethnicity in registers,
2) Elucidating the infrastructure behind the classifications,
3) Comprehensive and deepened examination of epidemiological studies concerning ethnicity/ethnic groups,
4) Concluding analysis using biomedicalization theory and STS methodologies.
A range of sources will be used, from databases to archival and published material. The findings of the project will contribute to the modern history of epidemiology and bring the Swedish case to an internationally growing research area, and shed new light on the construction of ethnicity as a central yet hidden category in the formation of epidemiological knowledge after WWII until today.
Efter 1945 års befolkningsundersökning upphörde man att registrera etnicitet i svensk statistik, och 1973 blev det olagligt. Epidemiologer har därför behövt utveckla alternativa metoder för att undersöka hälsotillståndet bland etniska minoriteter i Sverige. Syftet med detta projekt är att undersöka hur praktiker av klassificering, kategorisering och epidemiologisk kunskapsproduktion utvecklades då etnicitet upphörde att vara en gångbar kategori efter andra världskriget.
- <i>Identity counts. The (non)use of ethnicity as a category in Swedish epidemiological research, 1950-2020</i>
- The evolution of big health data in Sweden
- Ethnic registration prohibited! Classifications and categories in epidemiological studies, 1950–2020
- Spotlighted or Hidden in Plain Sight : Consequences of the Post-War Ban on Ethnic Registration in Sweden
Funding period
- 2022 - 2024
Project type
- Project grant
National Research Field
- History
- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology