Africana People in China : Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment / by C. Jama Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, C. Jama, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis.

Series:

Explorations in Mental Health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--China.

Africans.

Africans--China--Social conditions.

China.

Local Subjects:

China.

Genre:

Book

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces. By exploring employment-based migration from a psychoanalytic perspective, this volume investigates the utility of adaptive ambivalence and the challenges that migrant workers face around issues of self-development, agency, and identity. Through a careful analysis of interviews with Africana people, the author demonstrates that the capacity to be reflective and resilient alongside having a strong and diversified support network are crucial for the psychological well-being of those living and working in unfamiliar geographic and cultural conditions.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Self in the World

3. Adaptive Ambivalence

4. Modernity and Migration

5. China: Race and Ethnicity

6. Contemporary Blackness in China: Psychosocial Perspectives; Aspirations and Constraints

7. Africana Persons and Self-Making in China

8. Conclusions and Possibilities for the Future

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-79705-2

0-429-43844-3

0-429-79706-0

9780429438448

9780429797064

0429797060

9780429797057

0429797052

9781138344556

1138344559

OCLC:

1082249170