Cristiana giordano migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in italy. By cristiana giordano university of california press, 2014, 288 pages. Cristiana giordano is the author of migrants in translation 4. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy university of california press, 2014. Translations on sub saharan africa download ebook pdf, epub.
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Congratulations to cristiana giordano her book migrants in. She works on foreign migration, mental health, the body, and cultural translation in contemporary italy. International migration studies interdisciplinary studies field. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition. Books received, culture, medicine and psychiatry 10. Cristiana giordano book event, migrants in translation. 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 assistant professor of anthropology at uc davis. Migrants in translation is a precise, excellently written ethnography of the.
Weingarten, karen 2014 abortion in the american imagination. 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. Migrants in translation by cristiana giordano paperback. Black girls and the choreography of citizenship duke, 2015. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy has been awarded second. She received her phd from the university of california, berkeley. Sha prize winners society for humanistic anthropology.
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Revealing how various social practices of translation make migrant sex workers intelligible to the states rehabilitation mission or not, giordano. Cristiana giordano is associate professor of anthropology at the university of california, davis. Giordanos other line of inquiry involves finding new ways of rendering ethnographic material into written texts andor artistic forms. Questia offers more than 94,000 fulltext books in our collection. Read migrants in translation by cristiana giordano for free with a 30 day free trial. 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. 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. Cristiana giordano scrutinizes multifaceted clinical encounters migrant. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. She works on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in contemporary italy. Migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in i. Cristiana giordano argues that ethnopsychiatrys focus on cultural.
Her research addresses the politics of migration in europe through the lens of ethnopsychiatry and its radical critique of psychiatric, legal, and moral categories of inclusionexclusion of foreign others. Cristiana giordano author of migrants in translation. Jan 01, 2014 migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in italy. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. Cristiana giordano s book migrants in translation 2014 published by uc press. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Cristiana giordano argues that ethnopsychiatrys focus on cultural identifications as therapeutic. Audio pronunciations, verb conjugations, quizzes and more.
Feb 06, 2017 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. 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. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy 2014, won the victor turner book prize for ethnographic writing 2016 and the boyer. Read migrants in translation caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy by cristiana giordano available from rakuten kobo. 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 growing interest in bioethics in italy is clearly witnessed not only by a proliferation of public conferences and meetings, but also by an increasing number of articles in professional journals, no less than in newspapers and magazines for the general public. Between two islands by sherri grasmuck, patricia r. Cristiana giordano is an associate professor of anthropology at uc davis. The ethnographic trail leads through ngo offices, the police. Caring and the logics of difference in contemorary italy. The transformation of african identities in the colonial and antebellum south. Translation and migration is the lifeblood of culture.
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