Cristiana giordano author of migrants in translation. Recent books libri recenti anthropology of italy network. Cristiana giordiano the uc collaboratory for ethnographic. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box.
Translation and migration is the lifeblood of culture even the literature that seems most rooted in one place is animated by writing from elsewhere and trying to keep that influence. Translations on sub saharan africa download ebook pdf, epub. Although ethnopsychiatry is currently focused on the care of migrants, key issues related to the impact of colonialism on mental illness and the recognition of cultural difference characterized the italian debate long before the 1980s when increasing numbers of migrants and political refugees started to arrive in italy. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition. The ethnographic trail leads through ngo offices, the police. Cristiana giordano s book migrants in translation 2014 published by uc press. Featuring interviews and data drawn from migrants working and living in australia, this book explores how the gender identity of men from nonenglishspeaking backgrounds is influenced by the experiences of migration and settlement in an englishspeaking culture, across various cultural spheres such as work, leisure, family life and religion.
Cristiana giordano is associate professor of anthropology at the university of california, davis. Read migrants in translation caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy by cristiana giordano available from rakuten kobo. May 16, 2014 in particular, migrants in translation focuses on italian ethnopsychiatry as an emerging technique that provides culturally appropriate therapeutic services exclusively to migrants, political refugees, and victims of torture and trafficking. Anthropologists new books illuminate challenges of human migration that. Migrants in translation by cristiana giordano book read. Congratulations to cristiana giordano her book migrants in translation. Sha prize winners society for humanistic anthropology.
Migrants in translation ebook by cristiana giordano. Books received, culture, medicine and psychiatry 10. Migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in i. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy university of california press, 2014. Read migrants in translation by cristiana giordano for free with a 30 day free trial. Audio pronunciations, verb conjugations, quizzes and more. Its larger context is europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural. Nov 25, 2015 migrants in translation, taking its point of departure from a small ethnopsychiatric clinic the centro franz fanon in turin, examines how various italian state and nonstate agencies involved in the care of female asylum seekers, refugees and migrants respond to these demands. Cristiana giordano book event, migrants in translation. Cristiana giordano migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in italy.
Top 10 books about migrants whether arriving in hope or leaving in despair, the story of migration has provided an impetus for some magnificent fiction. Cristiana giordanos migrants in translation somatosphere. Migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in italy. Migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign m. Migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and. Giordanos other line of inquiry involves finding new ways of rendering ethnographic material into written texts andor artistic forms. Cristiana giordano argues that ethnopsychiatrys focus on cultural identifications as therapeuticinasmuch as it complies with current political desires for diversity and multiculturalismalso provides a radical critique of psychiatric, legal, and moral categories of inclusion, and allows for a rethinking of the politics of recognition. Exploring the political entailments of rehabilitating victims of human trafficking in italy, migrants in translation speaks to the often puzzling disjuncture between recent anthropological and public discourses concerning migrant care and integration.
Jul 22, 2015 top 10 books about migrants whether arriving in hope or leaving in despair, the story of migration has provided an impetus for some magnificent fiction. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy kindle edition by giordano, cristiana. Black girls and the choreography of citizenship duke, 2015. Cristiana giordano scrutinizes multifaceted clinical encounters migrant.
Exploring the political entailments of rehabilitating victims of human trafficking in italy, migrants in translation speaks to the often puzzling disjuncture between recent anthropological and public discourses concerning migrant care. Cristiana giordano is assistant professor of anthropology at uc davis. Migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration. Migrants in translation is a precise, excellently written ethnography of the. Migrants in translation by cristiana giordano paperback. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy 2014, won the victor turner book prize for ethnographic writing 2016 and the boyer. The women at the center of the book had been recruited in countries such.
She works on foreign migration, mental health, the body, and cultural translation in contemporary italy. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy has been awarded second. Weingarten, karen 2014 abortion in the american imagination. Questia offers more than 94,000 fulltext books in our collection. Cristiana giordano is an associate professor of anthropology at uc davis. Notionally, it was the anchor of the region, but it existed at such a spiritual and sociological remove that it could have been the moon. She works on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in contemporary italy. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Cristiana giordano argues that ethnopsychiatrys focus on cultural. Congratulations to cristiana giordano her book migrants in. International migration studies interdisciplinary studies field.
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