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082 _a155.820945 GIO
100 _aCristiana Giordano
245 _aMigrants in translation
_b : caring and the logics of difference in contemporary Italy
_c/Cristiana Giordano
260 _aBerkeley
_b : University of California Press
_c, 2014.
300 _axiv, 288 p.
_c ; 23 cm
505 _a 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
520 _aPresents 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.
650 _aEthnopsychology
655 _aImmigrants--Cultural assimilation
_bImmigrants--Mental health
700 _aCristiana Giordano
942 _cBOOK
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