Precarious lives at the time of Corona. Ethnographic data collection in Northern Botkyrka

The corona crisis has led to an exceptional situation without equal. It is still unknown what consequences it will have for the Swedish population's social, psychological, economic and medical well-being. To enable future research to understand what happened, we need material on how people experienced the Corona crisis in 2020. This project proposes to collect data on the lived experience of the population in northern Botkyrka, where many have a migrant background and live in vulnerable socio-economic conditions . We will select 120 people who live in Norra Botkyrka to conduct two rounds of semi-structured interviews, first in June and then in December. This will give us unique material on how the Corona crisis and the measures taken by the public authorities have been experienced and worked over time. As human memory is fleeting, it is urgent to start the interviews as soon as possible. The richness of detail in the material we could obtain through this data collection can help to supplement and deepen the quantitative data that will be collected about the crisis. This will provide the research community with unique material on how the Corona crisis affected a precarious section of the population in favor of future academic research, policy evaluations and community planning. The richness of detail in the material we could obtain through this data collection can help to supplement and deepen the quantitative data that will be collected about the crisis. This will provide the research community with unique material on how the Corona crisis affected a precarious section of the population in favor of future academic research, policy evaluations and community planning. The richness of detail in the material we could obtain through this data collection can help to supplement and deepen the quantitative data that will be collected about the crisis. This will provide the research community with unique material on how the Corona crisis affected a precarious section of the population in favor of future academic research, policy evaluations and community planning.