Migrants in Translation : Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Cristiana. Giordano
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (303 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE WALLS; 1. On the Tightrope of Culture; 2. Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry; PART TWO. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE; 3. Ambivalent Inclusion: Psychiatrists, Nuns, and Bureaucrats in Conversation; PART THREE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE POLICE STATION; 4. Denuncia: The Subject Verbalized; PART FOUR. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE SHELTER; 5. Paradoxes of Redemption: Translating Selves and Experimenting with Conversion; PART FIVE. REENTERING THE SCENE: THE CENTRO. - 6. Tragic Translations: "I am afraid of falling. Speak well of me, speak well for me"Epilogue: Other Scenes; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W. - Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural, multiracial Europe. The issue of migration and cultural difference figures as central in the process of forming diverse yet unified European identities. In this context, legal and illegal foreigners-mostly from Eastern Europe and Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa-are often portrayed as a threat to national and sup
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| Emner | Assimilation (Sociology)
Immigrants - Psychological aspects - Italy Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Vis mer... Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Behavioral Sciences Cultural Diversity Culture Emigrants and Immigrants Ethnopsychology Health Care Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services Health Services Mental Health Services Named Groups Persons Psychiatry Psychiatry and Psychology Psychology Sociology Anthropology Antropologi Etnopsykologi Italia Migrasjon Oversettelse Psykiatri Psykisk helse Social & Cultural Anthropology Social Sciences Sosialantropologi Trafficking |
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| Dewey | 155.8/20945 . - 304.845
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| ISBN | 9780520276659. - 9780520276666
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