This article argues that court-ritual unawareness, linguistic shortcomings and stereotypical images about non-Swedish otherness impair the position and acting space for immigrants in a Swedish district court context. Drawing on two ethnographically informed research projects focused on courtroom interaction during more than 20 trials dealing with 'domestic violence' and 'street-related crime', we claim that immigrant voices are often silenced due to taken-for-granted practices in court. Through analyses of interviews, performances, interpreted hearings and references to a desirable Swedishness, it is argued that situations are created where immigrant participants may experience their possibility of being understood as limited and their voices as being unheard. Such conditions are emotionally draining and may result in participants choosing silence over stating their case. This is a problem, not only within the individual court case, but also for the overall legitimacy of the court system and for issues of institutional trust among citizens.
Background and aims It is unclear if improving glycemic control in persons with type 2 diabetes (T2D) also has liver-related effects. We aimed to evaluate if a personalized treatment program associates with improvement of liver-related parameters in persons with advanced T2D in a real-life setting. Methods Persons with advanced T2D underwent a 4-day personalized treatment program, with the aim of improving glycemic control by dietary advice, instructions on how to achieve optimal glucose control and individualized dosage of medications. Transient elastography was used to estimate liver steatosis and fibrosis. Persons with liver diseases other than non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) were excluded. After 3 months, study participants were offered re-examination. Results Ninety-one persons were included. Of these, 75 persons (82%) had controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) measurements of acceptable quality at baseline. Of these, 57 (76%) had NAFLD (defined as >268 dB/m). Twenty-two persons (24%) had elevated liver stiffness (>7.9 kPa), and eight (9%) had liver stiffness above 13.9 kPa, indicating advanced fibrosis. Over a median follow-up of 101 days, mean CAP in persons with NAFLD was reduced by 18.33 dB/m (P = 0.035). In persons with elevated liver stiffness, mean stiffness was reduced by 2.6 kPa (P = 0.047). In linear regression, one-unit improvement in fasting glucose (mg/dl) was associated with a decrease in hepatic steatosis with 0.48 dB/m (adjusted R2 = 0.35, P < 0.01). Conclusion The prevalence of NAFLD with advanced fibrosis is high in persons with advanced T2D. Improving glycemic control through a personalized treatment program is associated with a reduction in liver steatosis and stiffness in this cohort.
This paper addresses the risk of research exposing people with an immigrant background in criminal court cases to Internet-based racist persecution, due to mismanagement of general ethical guidelines. The principle of informed consent, ideally serving to protect people under study from harm may, in fact, cause them more harm due to the interest among certain Internet-based networks of spreading identifiable, degrading information. Arguments are based on ethically challenging experiences from two ethnographic research projects carried out in Swedish district court environments, focused on immigrant court cases. Ethical advice provided by ethical review boards and established research guidelines, were based on an unawareness of the potentially destructive rendezvous in media attractive immigrant court cases between 'ethically informed' research, crime journalism, freedom of information legislation and 'Internet vigilantes' on a quest to persecute court participants and their families in the global digital arena.
The aim of this paper is to examine how the rights of homeless children to housing and protection in accordance with articles 27 and 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are upheld in Malmö. The two research questions that are of particular interest in relation to this objective are firstly whether the Swedish parliament's decision to incorporate the Convention on children's rights into Swedish law has had a concrete effect on the implementation of children's rights to housing and protection, and secondly how new guidelines that were introduced in Malmö in 2019 have had an impact on the same. The study is qualitative and employs an ethnographic approach based on conversations with 14 girls and 6 boys, which proceeded from photographs the children had taken of their housing situation and daily lives. The results show that homeless children and their needs and rights remain largely unseen in the work of the social services. The situation of this already vulnerable group has also worsened since our conversations with the children, since a majority no longer are part of the social services' target group according to Malmö's guidelines regarding homeless persons. It may be argued that such a result provides an indication both of society's approach to children located on the extreme margins of society and of the way in which welfare provision has developed in Sweden.
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