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Problems of forced migration - a firm stance for an authentic emotional response

A body of important research has been dedicated to the study of ways in which refugee health is being understood. There are two identified paradigms according to which a refugee is either objectified as part of political class of excess people or reduced to being a carrier of disease and wide range of pathologies. It has been suggested that alternatives should be created to these approaches that would take the polyvocality of refugees and displaced into account and possibly construe "refugees" as prototypes of resilience. This paper deals with suggesting that while on that path of developing a middle ground model of approach, neither of these new paradigms can be properly changed without the recognition that refugees and displaced persons have become just one more "reference group" for projections of synthetically construed false emotions and that without a retraction in the manipulation of emotions, on a world-wide level, no change is possible. This paper is based on the insights gathered through conducting a long-term research carried out among exile families in Croatia and conducted through the work in the Institute for Anthropological research in Zagreb.

medical anthropology; postemotionalism

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