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Author Giordano, Cristiana.

Title Migrants in Translation Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy / Cristiana Giordano
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- PART I: ENTERING THE SCENE: THE WALLS -- 1. On the Tightrope of Culture -- 2. Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry -- PART II. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE -- 3. Ambivalent Inclusion: Psychiatrists, Nuns, and Bureaucrats in Conversation -- PART III. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE POLICE OFFICE -- 4. Denuncia: The Subject Verbalized -- PART IV. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE SHELTER -- 5. Paradoxes of Redemption: Translating Selves and Experimenting with Conversion -- PART V. 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
Summary 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 supranational identities, security, cultural foundations, and religious values. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition and cultural translation that emerge in response to these social uncertainties. In particular, Migrants in Translation focuses on Italian ethno-psychiatry as an emerging technique that provides culturally appropriate therapeutic services exclusively to migrants, political refugees, and victims of torture and trafficking. Cristiana Giordano argues that ethno-psychiatry's focus on cultural identifications as therapeutic - inasmuch as it complies with current political desires for diversity and multiculturalism - also provides a radical critique of psychiatric, legal, and moral categories of inclusion, and allows for a rethinking of the politics of recognition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnopsychology -- Italy
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Italy
Immigrants -- Mental health -- Italy
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Psychological aspects
Psychology.
National health services.
Culture.
Sociology.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Social sciences.
Medical care.
Cultural pluralism.
Mental health services.
Immigrants.
Persons
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Psychology
Health Services
Culture
Psychiatry
Psychiatry and Psychology
Named Groups
Behavioral Sciences
Sociology
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Anthropology, Cultural
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Delivery of Health Care
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Cultural Diversity
Mental Health Services
Ethnopsychology
Emigrants and Immigrants
State Medicine
Ethnology
Patient Care
psychology.
culture note.
behavioral sciences.
sociology.
ethnology.
social anthropology.
anthropology.
social sciences.
immigrants.
emigrants.
culture (concept)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Sociology
Social sciences
Psychology
National health services
Mental health services
Medical care
Immigrants
Ethnology
Culture
Cultural pluralism
Anthropology
Ethnopsychology
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation
Immigrants -- Mental health
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Social & Cultural Anthropology.
Italy
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014006526
ISBN 9780520958869
0520958861
1306733103
9781306733106