Being human, being migrant : sense of self and well-being / edited by Anne Sigfrid Gronseth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid.

Contributor:

Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid.

Series:

EASA series ; v. 23.

Easa series ; volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Immigrants--Psychology.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Being Human, Being Migrant; 1 Fantasy, Subjectivity and Vulnerability through the Story of a Woman Asylum Seeker in Italy; 2 Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future ; 3 Narrating Mobile Belonging; 4 Well-Being and the Implication of Embodied Memory; 5 Towards a 'Re-envisioning of the Everyday' in Refugee Studies; 6 Behind the Iron Fence; Epilogue A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility; Notes on Contributors ; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 21, 2013).

ISBN:

9781785332104

1785332104

9781782380467

1782380469

OCLC:

860394738