Daniel La Parra Casado, associate professor, Sociology Department at the University of Alicante (Spain):
Daniel got his PhD in Sociology and MSc in Epidemiology and has directed several research projects in social inequalities in health by social class, gender, and ethnicity. He is also an expert on the Spanish National Roma Council and the head of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Social Inclusion and Health (2012-2020). You can find information about his publications here: ORCID, Dialnet, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Daniel will be presenting work on different strategies to emerge data on minorities that for different reasons are invisible in official statistics. While Daniel will be physically present in Umeå, we have to keep the seminar on Zoom as long as the current distance decision by the principal stands. Daniel will present for 30-45 minutes, followed by a Q and A.
There is a growing support to the idea that public policies should be based on evidence, but, at the same time, minorities are usually invisible in statistics. This applies to different social groups defined by their ethnicity, administrative status (irregular, asylum seekers, refugees, cross border citizens), and other sociodemographic characteristics (religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, economic status, and other diverse backgrounds). The levels of invisibility may differ among countries and in the different statistical data sources. This seminar reviews different strategies to emerge data about minorities, and the different challenges and limitations to achieve this goal. It concludes providing examples from my experience studying the health status of the migrants and Roma populations in Europe using survey-based research.
The seminar will be held in English and send through zoom. Employees at the department will get the link by e-mail. If you want to participate and are not employed - send an e-mail to sara.kalucza@umu.se or josefina.frech@umu.se