Cargando…

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

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....

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giordano, Cristiana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.