Margarita Mondaca
Biographic Data
| ID | 4245431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita Mondaca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mondaca |
| SIGNATURE | MONDACA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karolinska Institutet |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1575-2582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living in Stand-by Mode While Constructing Lived Citizenship
Refugee women can encounter a range of challenges in their new countries, including limited access to health services, education, and employment opportunities, factors that significantly shape and limit everyday lives and opportunities for social participation. This study aims to understand health and social participation in everyday life through dialogue with refugee women and the local organizations addressing applying an intersectional lens. G…
Situated occupation and everyday life
Striving in uncertainty
Disabled refugee women can experience a lack of possibilities for social participation in their new country, which can impact their health and well-being. Intersectional approaches that acknowledge the participatory needs of disabled refugees are missing in policies and regulations. This study highlights the capabilities that disabled refugee women use to construct their everyday lives and to experience social participation. For more than one yea…
Envisioning better opportunities for young-system-survivors
Despite current inclusion discourses in Germany, specific groups of children and adolescents with mental health problems are identified by healthcare services as "too difficult to manage", creating varied exclusion processes. In this study, the term young-system-survivors is used for destigmatization purposes. While occupational science discourses suggest that social inclusion should be addressed at the level of social structures, institutions, a…
Migration and disability narratives from an intersectional perspective
The aim of this paper is to explore everyday life experiences of migration and disability from an intersectional perspective drawing on issues such as gender, class, and ethnicity. This is relevant because when focus is on either migration or disability, unique challenges faced by disabled migrants are neglected, leading to fragmented support and a lack of accurate knowledge. The analysis is based on retrospective data from photovoice sessions co…
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about frailty and vulnerability in critical gerontology by asserting that possibilities to engage and enact influence in everyday life situations is a crucial dimension of democracy in later life. We discuss how democracy in this sense can be threatened for older persons for whom health and social care services are needed, following from the labelling practices of frailty and the non-recognition of …
Stories under construction
Experiences calling for meaning-making, such as encountering moral dilemmas or existential issues, are ineluctable in the everyday circumstances of persons on a geriatric ward, both patients and professionals. Narratives are a key form for constructing meaning and a powerful tool for expressing and understanding subjective experiences related to living and ageing. Furthermore, narratives can contribute to shifting healthcare towards a more person…
Doing hope” as a possible way towards a responsive occupational science
Europe is facing many major and rapid changes, which have direct consequences for the everyday lives of people experiencing diverse situations of vulnerability. Changes in health care systems, migration, and a growing population of elderly people are just a few examples of these changes in Europe. New ways of living and the struggles associated with them, urge our community to seek sustainable ways towards social justice. I choose to speak from m…
Bridging through Occupation
Experiences of elderly survivors of human rights violations can inform understandings of occupation in relation to how people manage extreme situations and cope with them while growing older. Using a narrative approach, this study explored the importance of everyday life focused on elderly Chilean immigrants in Sweden, who had experienced human rights violations. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews and anal…
Moving Beyond ‘Aging In Place’ to Understand Migration and Aging
Aging in place' has become a key conceptual framework for understanding and addressing place within the aging process. However, aging in place has been critiqued for not sufficiently providing tools to understand relations or transactions between aging and place, and for not matching the diversity of contemporary society in which people are moving between and across nations more than ever before. In this article, the authors draw from concepts of…
Moving Beyond ‘Aging In Place’ to Understand Migration and Aging
Aging in place' has become a key conceptual framework for understanding and addressing place within the aging process. However, aging in place has been critiqued for not sufficiently providing tools to understand relations or transactions between aging and place, and for not matching the diversity of contemporary society in which people are moving between and across nations more than ever before. In this article, the authors draw from concepts of…
Bridging through Occupation
Experiences of elderly survivors of human rights violations can inform understandings of occupation in relation to how people manage extreme situations and cope with them while growing older. Using a narrative approach, this study explored the importance of everyday life focused on elderly Chilean immigrants in Sweden, who had experienced human rights violations. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews and anal…
Migration and disability narratives from an intersectional perspective
The aim of this paper is to explore everyday life experiences of migration and disability from an intersectional perspective drawing on issues such as gender, class, and ethnicity. This is relevant because when focus is on either migration or disability, unique challenges faced by disabled migrants are neglected, leading to fragmented support and a lack of accurate knowledge. The analysis is based on retrospective data from photovoice sessions co…
Stories under construction
Experiences calling for meaning-making, such as encountering moral dilemmas or existential issues, are ineluctable in the everyday circumstances of persons on a geriatric ward, both patients and professionals. Narratives are a key form for constructing meaning and a powerful tool for expressing and understanding subjective experiences related to living and ageing. Furthermore, narratives can contribute to shifting healthcare towards a more person…
Striving in uncertainty
Disabled refugee women can experience a lack of possibilities for social participation in their new country, which can impact their health and well-being. Intersectional approaches that acknowledge the participatory needs of disabled refugees are missing in policies and regulations. This study highlights the capabilities that disabled refugee women use to construct their everyday lives and to experience social participation. For more than one yea…
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about frailty and vulnerability in critical gerontology by asserting that possibilities to engage and enact influence in everyday life situations is a crucial dimension of democracy in later life. We discuss how democracy in this sense can be threatened for older persons for whom health and social care services are needed, following from the labelling practices of frailty and the non-recognition of …
Doing hope” as a possible way towards a responsive occupational science
Europe is facing many major and rapid changes, which have direct consequences for the everyday lives of people experiencing diverse situations of vulnerability. Changes in health care systems, migration, and a growing population of elderly people are just a few examples of these changes in Europe. New ways of living and the struggles associated with them, urge our community to seek sustainable ways towards social justice. I choose to speak from m…
Moving Beyond ‘Aging In Place’ to Understand Migration and Aging
Aging in place' has become a key conceptual framework for understanding and addressing place within the aging process. However, aging in place has been critiqued for not sufficiently providing tools to understand relations or transactions between aging and place, and for not matching the diversity of contemporary society in which people are moving between and across nations more than ever before. In this article, the authors draw from concepts of…
Bridging through Occupation
Experiences of elderly survivors of human rights violations can inform understandings of occupation in relation to how people manage extreme situations and cope with them while growing older. Using a narrative approach, this study explored the importance of everyday life focused on elderly Chilean immigrants in Sweden, who had experienced human rights violations. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews and anal…
Doing hope” as a possible way towards a responsive occupational science
Europe is facing many major and rapid changes, which have direct consequences for the everyday lives of people experiencing diverse situations of vulnerability. Changes in health care systems, migration, and a growing population of elderly people are just a few examples of these changes in Europe. New ways of living and the struggles associated with them, urge our community to seek sustainable ways towards social justice. I choose to speak from m…
Stories under construction
Experiences calling for meaning-making, such as encountering moral dilemmas or existential issues, are ineluctable in the everyday circumstances of persons on a geriatric ward, both patients and professionals. Narratives are a key form for constructing meaning and a powerful tool for expressing and understanding subjective experiences related to living and ageing. Furthermore, narratives can contribute to shifting healthcare towards a more person…
Envisioning better opportunities for young-system-survivors
Despite current inclusion discourses in Germany, specific groups of children and adolescents with mental health problems are identified by healthcare services as "too difficult to manage", creating varied exclusion processes. In this study, the term young-system-survivors is used for destigmatization purposes. While occupational science discourses suggest that social inclusion should be addressed at the level of social structures, institutions, a…
Migration and disability narratives from an intersectional perspective
The aim of this paper is to explore everyday life experiences of migration and disability from an intersectional perspective drawing on issues such as gender, class, and ethnicity. This is relevant because when focus is on either migration or disability, unique challenges faced by disabled migrants are neglected, leading to fragmented support and a lack of accurate knowledge. The analysis is based on retrospective data from photovoice sessions co…
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about frailty and vulnerability in critical gerontology by asserting that possibilities to engage and enact influence in everyday life situations is a crucial dimension of democracy in later life. We discuss how democracy in this sense can be threatened for older persons for whom health and social care services are needed, following from the labelling practices of frailty and the non-recognition of …
Striving in uncertainty
Disabled refugee women can experience a lack of possibilities for social participation in their new country, which can impact their health and well-being. Intersectional approaches that acknowledge the participatory needs of disabled refugees are missing in policies and regulations. This study highlights the capabilities that disabled refugee women use to construct their everyday lives and to experience social participation. For more than one yea…
Situated occupation and everyday life
Living in Stand-by Mode While Constructing Lived Citizenship
Refugee women can encounter a range of challenges in their new countries, including limited access to health services, education, and employment opportunities, factors that significantly shape and limit everyday lives and opportunities for social participation. This study aims to understand health and social participation in everyday life through dialogue with refugee women and the local organizations addressing applying an intersectional lens. G…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Occupational science (5 works) · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Occupational Therapy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)