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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.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth Chapter 1. Fantasy, Subjectivity and Vulnerability through the Story of a Woman Asylum Seeker in Italy
Barbara Pinelli Chapter 2. Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future: Exploring Tamil refugees' Sense of Identity and Agency
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth Chapter 3. Narrating Mobile Belonging: A Dutch Story of Subjectivity in Transformation
MaruSka SvaSek Chapter 4. Well-being and the Implication of Embodied Memory: from the Diary of a Migrant Woman
Naoko Maehara Chapter 5. Towards a 'Re-Envisioning of the Everyday' in Refugee Studies
Christina Georgiadou Chapter 6. Behind the Iron Fence: (Dis)placing Boundaries, Initiating Silences
MaSa Mikola Epilogue: A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility.
Nigel Rapport List of Contributors
About the author
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth is a Professor in Social Anthropology at the University College of Lillehammer, Norway, where she directs the Research Unit of Health, Culture, and Identity. Her recent publications include Lost Selves and Lonely Persons: Experiences of Illness and Well-Being among Tamil Refugees in Norway (Carolina Academic Press, 2010) and Mutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter (co-edited with Dona Lee Davis, Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2010).
Summary
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.
