Vaccine calculations among diaspora populations: evidence from South Sudanese communities in Canada

Kur, Malith, Pendle, Naomi and Storer, Liz (2022) Vaccine calculations among diaspora populations: evidence from South Sudanese communities in Canada. . Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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This brief explores understandings, and experiences of COVID-19 vaccines among South Sudanese diaspora members living across Canada. Members of this community, along with other members of African diaspora populations globally, have been considered to be vaccine ‘hesitant’. By contrast, we find that many South Sudanese Canadians have accepted a vaccine. Yet, this has not been linked to the formation of trust with the healthcare system or the government. Rather, fears of vaccine side-effects persisted, and many considered their decision-making compromised. This brief places sentiments in the context of adverse experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, which have fostered trust in diaspora networks, maintained both virtually and physically, where vaccine misinformation has circulated.

Item Type:	Monograph (Report)
Official URL:	https://www.lse.ac.uk/africa/research/Ethnographie...
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Authors
Divisions:	?? FLIA ??
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	07 Jun 2022 08:09
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2024 09:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115288

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