Africana People in China - Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity,

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

C. Jama Adams is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY, USA.

Zusammenfassung

This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa within the context of international socio-economic forces.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: C Jama Adams, C. Jama Adams
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367585020
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58502-0
• Seiten: 208
• Serie: Explorations in Mental Health
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918; Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Psychologie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; China, Africa, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Cultural Psychology