Carin Björngren Cuadra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3075253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carin Björngren Cuadra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carin Björngren |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuadra |
| SIGNATURE | CUADRA C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Malmö University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6182-7488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A community-based response to the Covid-19 pandemic
This study analyzes a community-based crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a socioeconomically deprived area in Malmö, Sweden, where a gap regarding accessible information was perceived. It aims at furthering the understanding of how social capital may facilitate collective action, thereby contributing to the understanding of community resilience in the face of risks, uncertainty, and hardships. An ethnographic method based on observations…
Social work students and teachers responding to internally displaced persons’ need of shelter in Ukraine in spring 2022
In the spring of 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, social work teachers and students in Lviv provided shelter support to internally displaced people. This article explores the challenges faced as well as adapting pedagogy to the crisis. An online transnational collaboration and retrospective analysis approach was employed to gather information from the teachers and students. Through a descriptive analysis, informed by Honneth’…
Three Nordic countries responding to Covid-19 – Eldercare perspectives
Information Communication Technology during Covid-19
This paper seeks to explore social work educators’ experiences of using technology to teach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last decade, there has been a move to digitalise higher education in many countries worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a mass exodus from the classroom to the home-based office at breakneck speed and highlighted, amongst other things, the digital divide that exists across the world. This research analyse…
Social relations and mental ill-health among newly arrived refugees in Sweden
Background Previous research indicates that social relations have an impact on the well-being of refugees and that well-being is important for effective integration into the host country. Few studies in Sweden have, to the best of our knowledge, looked at the association between social relations and mental ill-health among newly arrived refugees. The aim is to investigate what effect social relations have on the mental health of newly arrived ref…
Imagining the ecosocial within social work
Aiming to explore how the ecosocial is imagined within social work research, this article engages with understandings of the relationship between the social and ecological realms when responding to the call for sustainability. A theoretical framework offering five possible imaginations of the ecosocial was developed: the holistic; the anthropocentric conflictual; the anthropocentric compatible; the ‘ecocentric’ conflictual; and the ‘ecocentric’ c…
Recognising children’s involvement in child and family therapy sessions
Children’s right to involvement in practices that address their well-being is frequently highlighted, yet how children exercise involvement in face-to-face encounters has remained fairly unknown. To fulfil our aim of identifying, describing and defining children’s involvement, we conducted an inductive microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue on audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring therapy sessions with children attending social services d…
Working and learning from home during Covid-19
This research seeks to explore the experiences of social work educators and students working and learning from home. The findings, from an international survey sample of 166 educators and students, showed that the respondents faced issues with private and personal boundaries, felt the impact of working and learning from home on both physical and emotional levels, and experienced challenges to what was expected of them. The respondents primarily u…
Encounters With Irregular Migrants in Social Work-"Collateral Damage" and Reframing of Recognizability in Swedish Public Social Services
The aim is to explore experiences and considerations of social workers regarding irregular migrants, understood as being prone to be “collateral damage.” It is revealed that some social workers approve assistance exceeding that which can find support in the national legislation. They are hereby addressing the normative conditions for recognition and installing new frames for apprehending irregular migrants. This process is referred to as a refram…
Public Social Services’ encounters with irregular migrants in Sweden
This article outlines Public Social Services’ encounters with irregular migrants in Sweden from the perspectives of institutional and street-level bureaucrats. Staff and executive considerations are influenced by a de jure exclusion of irregular migrants, which is an element of the control of migration. Staff face contradictory demands concerning international and national regulations, which leads to legal ambiguities open to discretionary powers…
Public Social Services’ encounters with irregular migrants in Sweden
This article outlines Public Social Services’ encounters with irregular migrants in Sweden from the perspectives of institutional and street-level bureaucrats. Staff and executive considerations are influenced by a de jure exclusion of irregular migrants, which is an element of the control of migration. Staff face contradictory demands concerning international and national regulations, which leads to legal ambiguities open to discretionary powers…
Encounters With Irregular Migrants in Social Work-"Collateral Damage" and Reframing of Recognizability in Swedish Public Social Services
The aim is to explore experiences and considerations of social workers regarding irregular migrants, understood as being prone to be “collateral damage.” It is revealed that some social workers approve assistance exceeding that which can find support in the national legislation. They are hereby addressing the normative conditions for recognition and installing new frames for apprehending irregular migrants. This process is referred to as a refram…
Recognising children’s involvement in child and family therapy sessions
Children’s right to involvement in practices that address their well-being is frequently highlighted, yet how children exercise involvement in face-to-face encounters has remained fairly unknown. To fulfil our aim of identifying, describing and defining children’s involvement, we conducted an inductive microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue on audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring therapy sessions with children attending social services d…
Imagining the ecosocial within social work
Aiming to explore how the ecosocial is imagined within social work research, this article engages with understandings of the relationship between the social and ecological realms when responding to the call for sustainability. A theoretical framework offering five possible imaginations of the ecosocial was developed: the holistic; the anthropocentric conflictual; the anthropocentric compatible; the ‘ecocentric’ conflictual; and the ‘ecocentric’ c…
Working and learning from home during Covid-19
This research seeks to explore the experiences of social work educators and students working and learning from home. The findings, from an international survey sample of 166 educators and students, showed that the respondents faced issues with private and personal boundaries, felt the impact of working and learning from home on both physical and emotional levels, and experienced challenges to what was expected of them. The respondents primarily u…
Public Social Services’ encounters with irregular migrants in Sweden
This article outlines Public Social Services’ encounters with irregular migrants in Sweden from the perspectives of institutional and street-level bureaucrats. Staff and executive considerations are influenced by a de jure exclusion of irregular migrants, which is an element of the control of migration. Staff face contradictory demands concerning international and national regulations, which leads to legal ambiguities open to discretionary powers…
Encounters With Irregular Migrants in Social Work-"Collateral Damage" and Reframing of Recognizability in Swedish Public Social Services
The aim is to explore experiences and considerations of social workers regarding irregular migrants, understood as being prone to be “collateral damage.” It is revealed that some social workers approve assistance exceeding that which can find support in the national legislation. They are hereby addressing the normative conditions for recognition and installing new frames for apprehending irregular migrants. This process is referred to as a refram…
Working and learning from home during Covid-19
This research seeks to explore the experiences of social work educators and students working and learning from home. The findings, from an international survey sample of 166 educators and students, showed that the respondents faced issues with private and personal boundaries, felt the impact of working and learning from home on both physical and emotional levels, and experienced challenges to what was expected of them. The respondents primarily u…
Social relations and mental ill-health among newly arrived refugees in Sweden
Background Previous research indicates that social relations have an impact on the well-being of refugees and that well-being is important for effective integration into the host country. Few studies in Sweden have, to the best of our knowledge, looked at the association between social relations and mental ill-health among newly arrived refugees. The aim is to investigate what effect social relations have on the mental health of newly arrived ref…
Imagining the ecosocial within social work
Aiming to explore how the ecosocial is imagined within social work research, this article engages with understandings of the relationship between the social and ecological realms when responding to the call for sustainability. A theoretical framework offering five possible imaginations of the ecosocial was developed: the holistic; the anthropocentric conflictual; the anthropocentric compatible; the ‘ecocentric’ conflictual; and the ‘ecocentric’ c…
Recognising children’s involvement in child and family therapy sessions
Children’s right to involvement in practices that address their well-being is frequently highlighted, yet how children exercise involvement in face-to-face encounters has remained fairly unknown. To fulfil our aim of identifying, describing and defining children’s involvement, we conducted an inductive microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue on audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring therapy sessions with children attending social services d…
Three Nordic countries responding to Covid-19 – Eldercare perspectives
Information Communication Technology during Covid-19
This paper seeks to explore social work educators’ experiences of using technology to teach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last decade, there has been a move to digitalise higher education in many countries worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a mass exodus from the classroom to the home-based office at breakneck speed and highlighted, amongst other things, the digital divide that exists across the world. This research analyse…
Social work students and teachers responding to internally displaced persons’ need of shelter in Ukraine in spring 2022
In the spring of 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, social work teachers and students in Lviv provided shelter support to internally displaced people. This article explores the challenges faced as well as adapting pedagogy to the crisis. An online transnational collaboration and retrospective analysis approach was employed to gather information from the teachers and students. Through a descriptive analysis, informed by Honneth’…
A community-based response to the Covid-19 pandemic
This study analyzes a community-based crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a socioeconomically deprived area in Malmö, Sweden, where a gap regarding accessible information was perceived. It aims at furthering the understanding of how social capital may facilitate collective action, thereby contributing to the understanding of community resilience in the face of risks, uncertainty, and hardships. An ethnographic method based on observations…
Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Work (4 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Social science (3 works)