Intercultural mediation in healthcare
The presentation examines the role of intercultural mediators in healthcare. Intercultural mediation is a relatively new profession aimed at assuring equity in access to healthcare.
Based on qualitative research with intercultural mediators in Slovenia, the power relations that arise in the triadic interactions in healthcare worker–patient–intercultural mediator relationships will be analysed.
We will explore the role of intercultural mediators in relation to the two sides that they are supposed to connect: The side of the patients and the side of healthcare workers. Paying attention to power relations, we show how intercultural mediators’ shifting loyalties between patient and healthcare workers considerably shape their practice.
Short biography
Prof. Dr. Uršula Čebron-Lipovec is an associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana, where she lectures courses for B.A. (Ethnology of Americas, Symbolic anthropology, Anthropology of migration) and M.A. level (Medical anthropology, Contemporary migration, ethnic minorities and citizenship) and carries mentorships for B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. thesis.
Her research interests are in the areas of anthropology of migration and medical anthropology, with special focus on migration and health issues. She has conducted fieldwork in Slovenia, in the Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina), in Argentina and Chile.
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