Migrants in translation
Cristiana Giordano
Migrants in translation : caring and the logics of difference in contemporary Italy /Cristiana Giordano - Berkeley : University of California Press , 2014. - xiv, 288 p. ; 23 cm
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE WALLS 1. On the Tightrope of Culture 2. Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry TWO. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE 3. Ambivalent Inclusion: Psychiatrists, Nuns, and Bureaucrats in Conversation THREE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE POLICE OFFICE 4. Denuncia: The Subject Verbalized FOUR. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE SHELTER 5. Paradoxes of Redemption: Translating Selves and Experimenting with Conversion FIVE. REENTERING THE SCENE: THE CLINIC 6. Tragic Translations: "I am afraid of falling. Speak well of me, speak well for me" EPILOGUE: OTHER SCENES Notes Bibliography Index
Presents an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition and cultural translation that emerge in response to these social uncertainties.
9780520276666
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Ethnopsychology
Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Immigrants--Mental health
155.820945 GIO
Migrants in translation : caring and the logics of difference in contemporary Italy /Cristiana Giordano - Berkeley : University of California Press , 2014. - xiv, 288 p. ; 23 cm
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE WALLS 1. On the Tightrope of Culture 2. Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry TWO. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE 3. Ambivalent Inclusion: Psychiatrists, Nuns, and Bureaucrats in Conversation THREE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE POLICE OFFICE 4. Denuncia: The Subject Verbalized FOUR. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE SHELTER 5. Paradoxes of Redemption: Translating Selves and Experimenting with Conversion FIVE. REENTERING THE SCENE: THE CLINIC 6. Tragic Translations: "I am afraid of falling. Speak well of me, speak well for me" EPILOGUE: OTHER SCENES Notes Bibliography Index
Presents an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition and cultural translation that emerge in response to these social uncertainties.
9780520276666
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002
Ethnopsychology
Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Immigrants--Mental health
155.820945 GIO
