Iron in the soul : displacement, livelihood and health in Cyprus / Peter Loizos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loizos, Peter, 1937-2012.

Series:

Forced Migration, 23

Forced migration ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Cyprus.

Migration, Internal.

Political refugees--Cyprus.

Political refugees.

Mortality--Cyprus.

Mortality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective unusual in the social sciences, this study yields unconventional insights into the deeper meanings of displacement. It focuses on reconstruction of livelihoods, conservation of family, community, social capital, health (both physical and mental), religious and political perceptions. The author argues for

Contents:

Crisis state and displaced citizens

Ambivalent relations : moments in the unmixing of a village

Exits south : improvisation vignettes

Economic recovery : a retrospective view

Crisis management by political consensus

Revisiting former homes

The referendum 2004 : too little, and too late?

Hearts as well as minds : illness and wellbeing

Coping with severe life events

A sociology of Argaki displacement : the thirty year view

In their own words

Iron in the soul : on grievance and transcendence.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.

ISBN:

9786612627026

9781845454845

1845454847

9781282627024

1282627023

9780857450678

0857450670

OCLC:

645101283