Being Human, Being Migrant

Senses of Self and Well-Being
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-210-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Reihe: EASA Series

Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant’s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living “in between” or on the “borderlands” between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact in migrants’ and refugees’ experience of identity and quest for well-being.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being

Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

Chapter 1. Fantasy, Subjectivity and Vulnerability through the Story of a Woman Asylum Seeker in Italy

Barbara Pinelli

Chapter 2. Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future: Exploring Tamil refugees’ Sense of Identity and Agency

Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

Chapter 3. Narrating Mobile Belonging: A Dutch Story of Subjectivity in Transformation

Maruška Svašek

Chapter 4. Well-being and the Implication of Embodied Memory: from the Diary of a Migrant Woman

Naoko Maehara

Chapter 5. Towards a ‘Re-Envisioning of the Everyday’ in Refugee Studies

Christina Georgiadou

Chapter 6. Behind the Iron Fence: (Dis)placing Boundaries, Initiating Silences

Maša Mikola

Epilogue: A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility.

Nigel Rapport

List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth is a Professor in Social Anthropology at the University College of Lillehammer, Norway, where she directs the Research Unit of Health, Culture, and Identity. Her recent publications include Lost Selves and Lonely Persons: Experiences of Illness and Well-Being among Tamil Refugees in Norway (Carolina Academic Press, 2010) and Mutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter (co-edited with Dona Lee Davis, Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2010).