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.
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.
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).
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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
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
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