Living in Stand-by Mode While Constructing Lived Citizenship

Refugee women can encounter a range of challenges in their new coun-tries, including limited access to health services, education, and employ-ment opportunities, factors that significantly shape and limit everyday livesand opportunities for social participation. This study aims to understandhealth and social participation in everyday life through dialogue with refu-gee women and the local organizations addressing applying an intersec-tional lens. Grounded in an intersectional framework, the study utilized amodified story dialogical method for the workshops. The findings are orga-nized into three key themes: a) Importance of trust and solidarity in thewomen’s everyday, b) Experiencing othering – the pain of not being wel-comed and c) “Stand-by mode”. The findings underscore how multiple inter-sectional dimensions, including legal status, socioeconomic position,ethnicity, and migration trajectories, interplay to determine whether partici-pation in and access to health, work, and education are possible or not.Solidarity practices, emerge as strategies for navigating and resisting struc-tural and systemic barriers.