Join us for the last event in our Speaker Series on Understanding Liminality and Legal Precarity, featuring Prof. Margarita Mondaca. She will present her talk, “Addressing Health Inequalities in Racialized and Socioeconomic Disadvantaged Areas in Sweden.”
This event will be held in a hybrid format. Lunch will be served at 11:45 AM in Dodson Room. The lecture will start at 12:15 PM and wrap up at 1:45 PM.
Abstract
In Sweden, growing social inequality and residential segregation profoundly shape health and everyday life. Historically, structurally, and institutionally rooted neglect is lived, reproduced, and contested within racialized, socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. Drawing on emerging insights from community-engaged scholarship, this work explores intersectional liminalities—the in-between spaces where agency and resistance coexist with harmful structural mechanisms, such as structural violence and restrictive mobility policies. These tensions reveal the contingent nature of the boundaries of lived citizenship and participation. By interrogating what is mobilized and what remains untouched in migration scholarship, this talk will call for interrogating the liminality of community-engaged scholarship.
About Margarita Mondaca
Margarita Mondaca is an occupational therapist specializing in mental health and human rights, with over 20 years of clinical and educational experience across Latin America, Sweden, and international contexts. Her work focuses on populations facing vulnerability and marginalization, with particular attention to the ethical dimensions these conditions raise. Grounded in a commitment to human rights and equity, she emphasizes how health and social participation are shaped by broader social, economic and historical forces. Her current research explores everyday life and vulnerability among people living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas and subjected to reinforcing stereotyping discourses. She is also chair of the examination board and faculty member for the European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy.
