Till Corona Sets Us Apart

Emerging Vaccination Risks among Serbian Parents in the Netherlands

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ID2436714
AuthorsM Brujic (0000-0001-8004-6399, University of Belgrade, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume72
Issue1
Pages83-103
Publication date2024-03-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Southeast European Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2701-8199 • E-ISSN: 2701-8202
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/soeu-2023-0014
OpenAlexW4392821477
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited39

In developed European Union (EU) countries, migrants are thought to be less likely to have their children fully vaccinated. To investigate this idea, this study examines parental perceptions of child vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 42 Serbian migrants in the Netherlands, conducted in the summer of 2020. The aim was to determine if the pandemic changed these parents' attitudes towards the Dutch healthcare system and vaccination in general. The paper's theoretical framework juxtaposes a "risk society" approach with a governmentality approach. The majority of the parents surveyed had had their children vaccinated according to the Dutch national vaccination programme. However, the study shows that many Serbian migrants had negative attitudes towards the then forthcoming SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. I therefore conclude that new vaccines, such as the Covid-19 vaccine, act as risk technologies which create a new "risk environment" rather than being perceived as preventive health measures

Corona (planetary geology · Geography · Linguistics · Physics · Serbian · Sociology · Vaccination · Demography · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Virology

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