Unique in its focus on how ethnographic face-to-face studies of migration display a specific way of being human as it highlights being between cultural truths and familiar contexts for relations of self, others and the world.
Employs and develops novel concepts that contribute to our understanding of self, well-being and agency.
Original in its studies of migrants’ daily life calls for knowledge that can stimulate peaceful co-existence in a world characterised by crises of migration, globalisation, war and conflict.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
