Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrants 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.
Anne Sigfrid Grønsethis 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 includeLost Selves and Lonely Persons: Experiences of Illness and Well-Being among Tamil Refugees in Norway(Carolina Academic Press, 2010) andMutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter(co-edited with Dona Lee Davis, Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2010).
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Acknowledgements
Introduction:Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being
Anne Sigfrid Gr?nseth
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 Gr?nseth
Chapter 3.Narrating Mobile Belonging: A Dutch Story of Subjectivity in Transformation
Maruaka Svaaek
Chapter 4.Well-being and the Implication of Embodied Memory: from thel3Ê
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