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Forced Migration and Social Trauma : Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology and Politics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamburger, Andreas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forced migration-Europe..
- Refugees-Europe-Social conditions-21st century..
- Refugee children-Europe-Social conditions-21st century..
- Violence-Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
- Summary:
- Forced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and international contributors, comprising refugee care practitioners, trauma researchers, sociologists and specialists in public policy from all along the Balkan refugee route into Europe.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- About the editors and contributors
- Preface by Vamik Volkan
- Preface by Ivan Krastev
- Dreams to nightmares - welcoming culture, xenophobia and social trauma along the balkan route: an introduction
- References
- Part I Refugees in public policy and social representation
- 1 International protection and psychosocial support services
- Legal, administrative and institutional framework for receiving Syrians in Turkey
- MHPSS and the international protection nexus in Turkey
- Actors, institutions and the scale barrier
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 2 Political traumatisation and trauma-discourse
- About the difficulties of a political trauma-discourse
- Political influences on the trauma-discourse concerning refugees
- Effects of psychotherapy with refugees
- About the necessity for reparations and psychotherapy
- 3 Social trauma in international refugee legislation
- The psychological definition of trauma
- The legal definition of the expression "refugee"
- The role and relevance of individual trauma
- The role and relevance of social trauma
- The legal definition of the expression "subsidiary protection"
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 4 Visual constructions of 'refugeeness' and portrayal of flight in German newspapers
- Theoretical background
- Method
- Main findings
- Individuals, groups and 'the Exodus'
- The Male Madonna?
- The journey: sea shores, boats and trains
- Police, walls and barbwire fences
- 5 Media coverage of refugees and policy processes: Serbia and the refugee crisis in the 2000s
- The beginning of a crisis
- The chronicle of dishonouring of asylum seekers
- 2011-2015: reporting on the reluctance to host refugees.
- Mid-2015 and after: more refugees, more calamities?
- Recalling the past with refugees for understanding the present
- European solutions
- 2017 onwards: fluctuating between praising and blaming refugees
- An epilogue without ending
- 6 How "words matter": Reporting on refugees and migrants in Europe
- Mass influx and crisis
- "Us" and "them"
- Serbia and the surroundings
- 'The other side' of journalism
- 7 Refugees in public policy and social representation: Workshop results
- Situation in the refugee crisis: individual/social interaction
- Identity as a core topic of forced migration and the impact of social trauma
- Research
- Practical measures: volunteers, arts and political voices
- Education - interreligious dialogues
- Volunteers and supervision
- Temporality
- Everyday encounters
- Part II Trauma and migration
- 8 Syrian 'guests' and the 'receiving' communities: Traumatisation of being an outsider/insider
- Introduction
- The foreigner question
- Syrians-Barometer: The Framework of Social Coherence with Syrians (SB-2017)
- Factors disrupting social cohesion: the unconscious roots of othering, xenophobia and racism
- The Merchant of Venice: Antonio and Shylock as the members of an in-group and an out-group
- The internal otherness of the self and its impact on the perception of foreigners
- 9 Inner emigration
- The clinical material
- The Adult Attachment Interview of the patient
- The transcript example: a preoccupied state of mind
- Transcript - an example: the unresolved state of mind with respect to abuse
- The perspective
- AAI-characteristics of the patient
- Coda
- References.
- 10 How can refugees heal?: Reflections on healing practices across the refugee process - from displacement to integration, ...
- Modelling refugee healing - individual versus collective approaches
- Collective trauma narrative and its healing effects
- Personal meta-narratives and their healing effects
- 11 Mental health in refugee children and youth
- Psychological distress in refugee children and youth: findings from key studies
- Pathways to resilience and post-traumatic growth
- Interventions
- 12 Methods and ethics in refugee research
- Research in context: refugees in Serbia between 2014 and 2017
- Challenges and lessons learned
- Between advocacy and science: responsibility and ethics
- Closing remarks
- 13 Mental health in refugees: Workshop results
- The situation
- Specific pathological phenomena seen in refugees
- Psycho-social support and interventions
- Refugees in transition
- Refugees who have reached their destination
- Part III Child refugees
- 14 Child refugee: Transition, migration and transitional phenomena
- Transition, agency and failure of the average expectable environment
- Transition to adulthood
- Agency, continuity and freedom
- Migration: separation and loss
- Separation
- The denial of loss
- Exposure to violence: the question of meaning
- Trauma transmission in refugee families
- Transitional phenomena: the experience of meeting or being a refugee
- Where could the place for such a meeting be?
- 15 "Here I found my place": Perspectives of refugee children in Serbia on psychosocial support programmes
- Brief theoretical background: PSS services - spaces of childhood on the move
- Methodology: "Finding my place".
- Findings: children's place within PSS services
- Establishing and maintaining close relationships
- Space of positive feelings and relaxing atmosphere
- Engaging in meaningful activities
- A. Activities that offer children possibilities to create and express themselves in different ways
- e.g., through ...
- B. The activities that open up the space for children to talk about themselves, about the journey and their experiences
- C. Educational activities of different kinds through which children would be able to acquire new knowledge and skills
- D. Opportunities to communicate, inform and amuse themselves through using technology
- Summary
- Concluding remarks
- 16 Former child refugees - a quarter of a century later
- Background
- The qualitative study
- Goals
- Participants
- The instrument
- Data analysis
- Results
- What do I remember best?
- How did it feel?
- The role of the parents or La vita è bella
- How did I stop being a refugee?
- What doesn't kill you makes you stronger ... or not?
- Note
- 17 Quest of identity in unattended minor refugees
- Culture-shock and mourning
- Adolescence, identity and migration
- Protective and resilience factors of refugee youth
- 18 Child refugees: Workshop results
- Invitation to the holding capacity of individuals and societies
- The legal status of child refugee
- Definitions and terms
- Description of the situation: rights and regulations, international agreements
- High-risk situations and prevention of human trafficking
- The situation in transition areas
- The lack of structure
- Experiences of child refugees and carers
- Estimation of the emergent and long-term needs: good practices
- Gaining trust and achieving cooperation.
- Good practices: balancing organisation, structure of time and sense of agency
- Good practice: the construction of a personal narrative
- Addressing the psychological consequences of the traumatic experience and avoiding re-traumatisation
- The main challenge
- Part IV Helpers, volunteers and vicarious trauma
- 19 Volunteers and refugee identity
- Refugee labelling or refugee identity
- A fluid population: a brief history of the refugee situation in Eastern Europe, 2015-2018
- Methodology
- Research fields 2015-2018: volunteers in official - governmental, municipal - semi-official and informal camps
- Moria: a European Hot Spot for refugee reception and registration
- Kara Tepe: a semi-independent "municipal refugee hosting site" with a high participation of volunteers
- Idomeni13
- 20 Yoga as a mindfulness-based intervention for refugees and helpers
- Trauma and vicarious traumatisation
- Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions on mental health
- Self-care for helpers and professionals
- Intervention examples: (trauma-sensitive) yoga with refugees and asylum seekers
- 21 Secondary traumatisation in service providers working with refugees
- Study on humanitarian workers engaged in the refugee crisis in Serbia
- Work-related risk factors
- Trauma-related risk factors
- Person-related risk factors - coping with stress
- Why are prevention and early detection important?
- Final remarks
- 22 Helpers, volunteers and vicarious trauma: Workshop results
- Risks and challenges of providing psycho-social support in different contexts
- Helplessness of the helpers
- Conceptual issues regarding VT: the crucial role of empathy.
- Methodological challenges in assessing VT.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-43241-0
- 0-429-77892-9
- 0-429-77891-0
- 9780429432415
- OCLC:
- 1063910473
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