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Translations on sub saharan africa download ebook pdf, epub. Cristiana giordanos migrants in translation somatosphere. By cristiana giordano university of california press, 2014, 288 pages. 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. Congratulations to cristiana giordano her book migrants in translation. Jan 01, 2014 migrants in translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in italy. 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. 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. 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. 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. Migrants in translation is a precise, excellently written ethnography of the. Cristiana giordano argues that ethnopsychiatrys focus on cultural identifications as therapeutic.
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Recent books libri recenti anthropology of italy network. Cristiana giordano is assistant professor of anthropology at uc davis. 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. Migrants in translation ebook by cristiana giordano. International migration studies interdisciplinary studies field. Audio pronunciations, verb conjugations, quizzes and more. 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. 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.
Anthropologists new books illuminate challenges of human migration that. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy has been awarded second. 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. Caring and the logics of difference in contemorary italy. Cristiana giordano scrutinizes multifaceted clinical encounters migrant. Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary italy 2014, won the victor turner book prize for ethnographic writing 2016 and the boyer. Sha prize winners society for humanistic anthropology. 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. 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. She works on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in contemporary italy.
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