Naslov
A medical anthropological approach towards the problems of forced migration - a firm stance for an authentic emotional response
(Problems of forced migration - a firm stance for an authentic emotional response)

Autori
Špoljar-Vržina, Sanja M.

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
International Study of Forced Migration - Book of abstracts / Van Willigen, Loes ; Geuijen, Karin ; Al Sarraj, E. - Lahti : Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, 1998

Skup
6th International Research and Advisory Panel Conference on Forced Migration

Mjesto i datum
Jeruzalem, Izrael, 13.12.1998. - 16.12.1998

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
medical anthropology; postemotionalism

Sažetak
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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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