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Migrants in Translation : Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014

Online-Ressource (303 p)

Englisch

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

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Print version: Migrants in Translation : Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy

978-0-520-27665-9

978-0-520-27665-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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978-0-520-95886-9 ( : 50.46 (NL))

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GN502 .G56 2014

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LOC-SH: Electronic books

Ethnopsychology ; Italy.. ; Immigrants ; Cultural assimilation ; Italy.. ; Immigrants ; Mental health ; Italy.. ; Assimilation (Sociology) ; Psychological aspects ; Electronic books

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 supranatio