Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant's 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
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 Grønseth
Chapter 3. Narrating Mobile Belonging: A Dutch Story of Subjectivity in Transformation
MaruSka SvaSek
Chapter 4. Well-being and the Implication of Embodied Memory: from the Diary of a Migrant Woman
Naoko Maehara
Chapter 5. Towards a 'Re-Envisioning of the Everyday' in Refugee Studies
Christina Georgiadou
Chapter 6. Behind the Iron Fence: (Dis)placing Boundaries, Initiating Silences
MaSa Mikola
Epilogue: A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility.
Nigel Rapport
List of Contributors
