About the Boundaries Longitudinal Study
The study's aim
This interdisciplinary study explores and examines how the medical profession across contexts perceives, experiences, and responds to the ways in which medicine interacts with and is shaped by migration control policies in everyday medical practice. The study is longitudinal, meaning that the research follows the development of the medical profession’s perceptions, experiences, and practices over time.
The study's approach
The study is based on qualitative interviews conducted across the globe in multiple contexts within healthcare and medical education, participant observations within healthcare settings, in humanitarian contexts, and in parts of civil society where physicians and medical students are engaged in migration-related issues concerning healthcare, as well as analyses of media and social media to follow public discourses and debates.
The study's researchers, partner institutes, and funders
The study is an interdisciplinary project, including researchers within medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, healthcare sciences, and the arts. The study is a collaboration between the University of Gothenburg and the University of Edinburgh, and is funded by the Swedish Research Council and the Scottish Funding Council's Research Excellence Grant.
Partnering universities, institutes, and funding bodies
