Mark Mosko
Biographic Data
| ID | 110281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Mosko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Mosko |
| SIGNATURE | MOSKO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6408-2629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bargaining with the body
South Africa is often viewed as a safe refuge for LGBTQ+ individuals, yet the reality for queer African migrants is marked by insecurity and exclusion. Despite strong constitutional protections, migrants from highly homophobic contexts continue to face discrimination and marginalisation. This article examines how gay Zimbabwean migrants experience and navigate violence, discrimination and marginalisation across their move to South Africa. As part…
Multilingualism in Psychotherapists in Training in Germany
Patients who speak languages other than those spoken by mental health professionals are significantly disadvantaged in mental health care settings. To bridge the communication gap, multilingual health professionals and professional interpreters are target-orientated solutions. This study was conducted to assess the multilingual resources, attitudes and needs of psychotherapist trainees in Germany. A cross-sectional nationwide online survey was co…
Exploring the use of translation technologies to overcome language barriers in mental healthcare
Language barriers in healthcare continue to pose major challenges to equitable, high-quality care, particularly in mental health settings where communication is central to diagnosis, therapeutic alliance, and treatment planning. Translation technologies, including machine translation applications, offer potential solutions, but their real-world usability in mental health care remains underexplored. This cross-country qualitative study examined th…
“Just having experience is not enough”
Background Across community settings, such as healthcare, interpreters play an important role in facilitating communication when service users and providers do not share a common language sufficiently. Because most countries lack legal standards in the field of Community Interpreting, Community Interpreters (CIPs) are often not adequately trained for this activity, and the need for formal training is increasingly emphasized. This study aims to ev…
Communication difficulties and strategies in migrant mental healthcare
Building trust and relationship across language barriers
Not applicable
Cross-Cultural Competence in Health Care
Culturally and linguistically diverse patients face an increased risk of developing mental health disorders due to pre- and post-migration stress and are more likely to experience unequal medical treatment and higher rates of misdiagnosis, contributing to a persistent treatment gap. Cultural competence training has been shown to improve the quality of care for these patient populations. This study aimed to develop and implement a multiprofessiona…
Uncovering multi-level mental healthcare barriers for migrants
This research elucidates the multifaceted, systemic challenges hindering equitable mental healthcare provision for migrants. It posits that sweeping policy reforms are imperative, advocating for the implementation of strategies, such as increasing the availability of language services, enhancing healthcare providers' capacity, and legal framework and policy change to be more inclusive. The findings substantially contribute to scholarly discourse …
Community interpreting in Germany
This study provides a first comprehensive evidence-based national database on CIPs in Germany. The findings can be valuable for the development of qualifications, guidelines, policies and the process of professionalizing the field of CIPs
They are not even called by name
Addressing the challenges outlined in the study requires collaborative efforts between government, psychiatric institutions, private security companies, SGs and MHCPs. The establishment of clear roles, implementation of comprehensive formal training, psychosocial support and improved working conditions, particularly in-house employment, higher pay, increased employee rights and job security, are needed
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care
The support of professional interpreters is an essential component of adequate mental health care for migrants with limited language proficiency. Nevertheless, for varied reasons, only a small proportion of outpatient psychotherapists provide interpreter-mediated psychotherapy for migrants. This study explored the perspectives of psychotherapists who have not worked with professional interpreters in outpatient mental health care to identify facto…
Training service providers to work effectively with interpreters through educational videos
To ensure the quality of interpreter-mediated encounters, not only interpreters but also service providers need to be trained. However, most of them lack adequate training. This study aimed to evaluate educational videos as a (self-)learning tool with which to train service providers to work with interpreters. Eight educational videos were developed in a multi-stage evidence-based process. For the evaluation, semi-structured interviews with 32 se…
Development and pilot evaluation of a universal intervention – Enhancing resilience in culturally and linguistically diverse primary school classrooms
The Extent of Psychosocial Distress among Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Homecare Nurses—A Comparative cross Sectional Survey
In times of demographic change, most developed countries are increasingly looking to cover the growing domestic demand for healthcare by hiring nurses from abroad. The evidence concerning the health of immigrant care workers is inconsistent since studies report that it is either better or more impaired than that of their non-immigrant counterparts. This study compared the extent of occupational psychosocial stressors and resources affecting immig…
Process- and outcome evaluation of an orientation programme for refugee health professionals
Refugee health professionals experience several barriers on their path to re-entering their original occupations in host countries. Several training programmes exist in order to address these barriers and enable a successful labour market integration. Objective : This study aims to evaluate a specific orientation programme for the labour market integration of refugee health professionals in Germany. The programme lasts three months and comprises …
Labour Market Integration of Refugee Health Professionals in Germany
Refugee health professionals are a vulnerable group in a host country’s labour market as they experience several barriers on their path to labour market integration. This study aims to identify challenges refugee health professionals and their supervisors experience at their workplaces and strategies they have developed to overcome these barriers. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with refugee health professionals who have been living in …
Malinowski's magical puzzles
Malinowski's classic accounts of Trobriand sociality have left anthropology with many lasting conundrums. This two-part article examines two such puzzles revolving around contradictory reports over the agencies involved in magical chants (megwa). On the one hand, consistent with his pragmatic and functionalist theories of language and culture, Malinowski claimed that, although ancestral baloma and other spirits are typically invoked in most spell…
Surveying migrant populations – methodological considerations
Data available from the recruitment process for a population-based survey on psychological well-being in women of Turkish origin aged 18–75 years was subjected to post-hoc analysis to examine effects of different recruitment approaches and reasons for non-response. A random sample of 80,000 women was drawn from the Berlin population registry and 3884 women of Turkish origin identified by a name-based algorithm. The women were assigned randomly to…
Partible penitents
I thank the respondents for their remarks and for the opportunity to clarify and elaborate upon several pivotal points in my article.Relevant concerns include: my chief focus -the core ritual practices of indigenous Melanesian religions and Christianity -as distinct from the respondents' interests in 'larger realities'; the formal correspondences and differences between pre-and post-conversion ritual performances; conceptual clarifications of div…
Conception, De-Conception and Social Structure in Bush Mekeo Culture
According to a contradiction of endogamy vs. exogamy (or of ‘blood’ vs. ‘non-blood’ relationship) in Bush Mekeo culture, non-relatives may marry and conceive by ‘mixing’ of distinct procreative clan bloods. By means of marriage and mortuary reciprocities, on the other hand, relatives or kin are ‘de-conceived’ through the ‘unmixing’ of non-procreative clan bloods. Thus, Bush Mekeo social structure is preserved through time: While the boundaries di…
Partible penitents
Recent discussions by anthropologists and others regarding the transmission and adoption of exogenous cultural elements have been framed by such tropes as cultural 'rupture', 'collision', 'disjuncture', 'hybridity', and 'globalization'. These studies have been undertaken largely independent of the 'New Melanesian Ethnography' and its distinctive understanding of partible personhood. Burgeoning studies of Christian conversion have elided the parti…
Self-Scaling the Earth
Literal Meanings
In a recent article in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA), Bergendorff () offers a new approach to the interpretation of traditional sorcery practices among the Mekeo peoples of Papua New Guinea involving the transcendence of certain conceptual divisions of the indigenous cosmology and local understandings of personhood and the institutional order. On the basis of the ‘literal meaning’ for various words of the Mekeo language, Bergen…
Syncretic Persons
This paper explores the syncretic accommodations made by North Mekeo (PNG) villagers arising from recent historical encounters with Catholic (Sacred Heart) missionaries over issues of ritual authenticity and effectiveness, personhood, and agency in a wider field of Christian evangelism and globalisation. Through a careful examination and comparison of pre‐existing ritual notions and practices (e.g., sorcery techniques, mortuary ritual performance…
Syncretic Persons
This paper explores the syncretic accommodations made by North Mekeo (PNG) villagers arising from recent historical encounters with Catholic (Sacred Heart) missionaries over issues of ritual authenticity and effectiveness, personhood, and agency in a wider field of Christian evangelism and globalisation. Through a careful examination and comparison of pre-existing ritual notions and practices (e.g., sorcery techniques, mortuary ritual performance…
Partible penitents
Recent discussions by anthropologists and others regarding the transmission and adoption of exogenous cultural elements have been framed by such tropes as cultural 'rupture', 'collision', 'disjuncture', 'hybridity', and 'globalization'. These studies have been undertaken largely independent of the 'New Melanesian Ethnography' and its distinctive understanding of partible personhood. Burgeoning studies of Christian conversion have elided the parti…
Labour Market Integration of Refugee Health Professionals in Germany
Refugee health professionals are a vulnerable group in a host country’s labour market as they experience several barriers on their path to labour market integration. This study aims to identify challenges refugee health professionals and their supervisors experience at their workplaces and strategies they have developed to overcome these barriers. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with refugee health professionals who have been living in …
Malinowski's magical puzzles
Malinowski's classic accounts of Trobriand sociality have left anthropology with many lasting conundrums. This two-part article examines two such puzzles revolving around contradictory reports over the agencies involved in magical chants (megwa). On the one hand, consistent with his pragmatic and functionalist theories of language and culture, Malinowski claimed that, although ancestral baloma and other spirits are typically invoked in most spell…
Conception, De-Conception and Social Structure in Bush Mekeo Culture
According to a contradiction of endogamy vs. exogamy (or of ‘blood’ vs. ‘non-blood’ relationship) in Bush Mekeo culture, non-relatives may marry and conceive by ‘mixing’ of distinct procreative clan bloods. By means of marriage and mortuary reciprocities, on the other hand, relatives or kin are ‘de-conceived’ through the ‘unmixing’ of non-procreative clan bloods. Thus, Bush Mekeo social structure is preserved through time: While the boundaries di…
Partible penitents
I thank the respondents for their remarks and for the opportunity to clarify and elaborate upon several pivotal points in my article.Relevant concerns include: my chief focus -the core ritual practices of indigenous Melanesian religions and Christianity -as distinct from the respondents' interests in 'larger realities'; the formal correspondences and differences between pre-and post-conversion ritual performances; conceptual clarifications of div…
Literal Meanings
In a recent article in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA), Bergendorff () offers a new approach to the interpretation of traditional sorcery practices among the Mekeo peoples of Papua New Guinea involving the transcendence of certain conceptual divisions of the indigenous cosmology and local understandings of personhood and the institutional order. On the basis of the ‘literal meaning’ for various words of the Mekeo language, Bergen…
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care
The support of professional interpreters is an essential component of adequate mental health care for migrants with limited language proficiency. Nevertheless, for varied reasons, only a small proportion of outpatient psychotherapists provide interpreter-mediated psychotherapy for migrants. This study explored the perspectives of psychotherapists who have not worked with professional interpreters in outpatient mental health care to identify facto…
Surveying migrant populations – methodological considerations
Data available from the recruitment process for a population-based survey on psychological well-being in women of Turkish origin aged 18–75 years was subjected to post-hoc analysis to examine effects of different recruitment approaches and reasons for non-response. A random sample of 80,000 women was drawn from the Berlin population registry and 3884 women of Turkish origin identified by a name-based algorithm. The women were assigned randomly to…
Syncretic Persons
This paper explores the syncretic accommodations made by North Mekeo (PNG) villagers arising from recent historical encounters with Catholic (Sacred Heart) missionaries over issues of ritual authenticity and effectiveness, personhood, and agency in a wider field of Christian evangelism and globalisation. Through a careful examination and comparison of pre-existing ritual notions and practices (e.g., sorcery techniques, mortuary ritual performance…
Cultural/Ethnology
Musing Pacific History
Aletta Biersack (ed.). Clio in Oceania: toward a historical anthropology. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1991. vii, 383pp., maps,figures.US$37.50.ISBN087474 3044
Syncretic Persons
This paper explores the syncretic accommodations made by North Mekeo (PNG) villagers arising from recent historical encounters with Catholic (Sacred Heart) missionaries over issues of ritual authenticity and effectiveness, personhood, and agency in a wider field of Christian evangelism and globalisation. Through a careful examination and comparison of pre‐existing ritual notions and practices (e.g., sorcery techniques, mortuary ritual performance…
Syncretic Persons
This paper explores the syncretic accommodations made by North Mekeo (PNG) villagers arising from recent historical encounters with Catholic (Sacred Heart) missionaries over issues of ritual authenticity and effectiveness, personhood, and agency in a wider field of Christian evangelism and globalisation. Through a careful examination and comparison of pre-existing ritual notions and practices (e.g., sorcery techniques, mortuary ritual performance…
Literal Meanings
In a recent article in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA), Bergendorff () offers a new approach to the interpretation of traditional sorcery practices among the Mekeo peoples of Papua New Guinea involving the transcendence of certain conceptual divisions of the indigenous cosmology and local understandings of personhood and the institutional order. On the basis of the ‘literal meaning’ for various words of the Mekeo language, Bergen…
Self-Scaling the Earth
Partible penitents
I thank the respondents for their remarks and for the opportunity to clarify and elaborate upon several pivotal points in my article.Relevant concerns include: my chief focus -the core ritual practices of indigenous Melanesian religions and Christianity -as distinct from the respondents' interests in 'larger realities'; the formal correspondences and differences between pre-and post-conversion ritual performances; conceptual clarifications of div…
Conception, De-Conception and Social Structure in Bush Mekeo Culture
According to a contradiction of endogamy vs. exogamy (or of ‘blood’ vs. ‘non-blood’ relationship) in Bush Mekeo culture, non-relatives may marry and conceive by ‘mixing’ of distinct procreative clan bloods. By means of marriage and mortuary reciprocities, on the other hand, relatives or kin are ‘de-conceived’ through the ‘unmixing’ of non-procreative clan bloods. Thus, Bush Mekeo social structure is preserved through time: While the boundaries di…
Partible penitents
Recent discussions by anthropologists and others regarding the transmission and adoption of exogenous cultural elements have been framed by such tropes as cultural 'rupture', 'collision', 'disjuncture', 'hybridity', and 'globalization'. These studies have been undertaken largely independent of the 'New Melanesian Ethnography' and its distinctive understanding of partible personhood. Burgeoning studies of Christian conversion have elided the parti…
Surveying migrant populations – methodological considerations
Data available from the recruitment process for a population-based survey on psychological well-being in women of Turkish origin aged 18–75 years was subjected to post-hoc analysis to examine effects of different recruitment approaches and reasons for non-response. A random sample of 80,000 women was drawn from the Berlin population registry and 3884 women of Turkish origin identified by a name-based algorithm. The women were assigned randomly to…
Malinowski's magical puzzles
Malinowski's classic accounts of Trobriand sociality have left anthropology with many lasting conundrums. This two-part article examines two such puzzles revolving around contradictory reports over the agencies involved in magical chants (megwa). On the one hand, consistent with his pragmatic and functionalist theories of language and culture, Malinowski claimed that, although ancestral baloma and other spirits are typically invoked in most spell…
The Extent of Psychosocial Distress among Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Homecare Nurses—A Comparative cross Sectional Survey
In times of demographic change, most developed countries are increasingly looking to cover the growing domestic demand for healthcare by hiring nurses from abroad. The evidence concerning the health of immigrant care workers is inconsistent since studies report that it is either better or more impaired than that of their non-immigrant counterparts. This study compared the extent of occupational psychosocial stressors and resources affecting immig…
Process- and outcome evaluation of an orientation programme for refugee health professionals
Refugee health professionals experience several barriers on their path to re-entering their original occupations in host countries. Several training programmes exist in order to address these barriers and enable a successful labour market integration. Objective : This study aims to evaluate a specific orientation programme for the labour market integration of refugee health professionals in Germany. The programme lasts three months and comprises …
Labour Market Integration of Refugee Health Professionals in Germany
Refugee health professionals are a vulnerable group in a host country’s labour market as they experience several barriers on their path to labour market integration. This study aims to identify challenges refugee health professionals and their supervisors experience at their workplaces and strategies they have developed to overcome these barriers. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with refugee health professionals who have been living in …
Development and pilot evaluation of a universal intervention – Enhancing resilience in culturally and linguistically diverse primary school classrooms
Training service providers to work effectively with interpreters through educational videos
To ensure the quality of interpreter-mediated encounters, not only interpreters but also service providers need to be trained. However, most of them lack adequate training. This study aimed to evaluate educational videos as a (self-)learning tool with which to train service providers to work with interpreters. Eight educational videos were developed in a multi-stage evidence-based process. For the evaluation, semi-structured interviews with 32 se…
Uncovering multi-level mental healthcare barriers for migrants
This research elucidates the multifaceted, systemic challenges hindering equitable mental healthcare provision for migrants. It posits that sweeping policy reforms are imperative, advocating for the implementation of strategies, such as increasing the availability of language services, enhancing healthcare providers' capacity, and legal framework and policy change to be more inclusive. The findings substantially contribute to scholarly discourse …
Community interpreting in Germany
This study provides a first comprehensive evidence-based national database on CIPs in Germany. The findings can be valuable for the development of qualifications, guidelines, policies and the process of professionalizing the field of CIPs
They are not even called by name
Addressing the challenges outlined in the study requires collaborative efforts between government, psychiatric institutions, private security companies, SGs and MHCPs. The establishment of clear roles, implementation of comprehensive formal training, psychosocial support and improved working conditions, particularly in-house employment, higher pay, increased employee rights and job security, are needed
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care
The support of professional interpreters is an essential component of adequate mental health care for migrants with limited language proficiency. Nevertheless, for varied reasons, only a small proportion of outpatient psychotherapists provide interpreter-mediated psychotherapy for migrants. This study explored the perspectives of psychotherapists who have not worked with professional interpreters in outpatient mental health care to identify facto…
“Just having experience is not enough”
Background Across community settings, such as healthcare, interpreters play an important role in facilitating communication when service users and providers do not share a common language sufficiently. Because most countries lack legal standards in the field of Community Interpreting, Community Interpreters (CIPs) are often not adequately trained for this activity, and the need for formal training is increasingly emphasized. This study aims to ev…
Communication difficulties and strategies in migrant mental healthcare
Building trust and relationship across language barriers
Not applicable
Cross-Cultural Competence in Health Care
Culturally and linguistically diverse patients face an increased risk of developing mental health disorders due to pre- and post-migration stress and are more likely to experience unequal medical treatment and higher rates of misdiagnosis, contributing to a persistent treatment gap. Cultural competence training has been shown to improve the quality of care for these patient populations. This study aimed to develop and implement a multiprofessiona…
Bargaining with the body
South Africa is often viewed as a safe refuge for LGBTQ+ individuals, yet the reality for queer African migrants is marked by insecurity and exclusion. Despite strong constitutional protections, migrants from highly homophobic contexts continue to face discrimination and marginalisation. This article examines how gay Zimbabwean migrants experience and navigate violence, discrimination and marginalisation across their move to South Africa. As part…
Medicine (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (10 works) · Health care (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works)