Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning

Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning

Author: Linda A. Camino

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-12

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1135306826

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Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning presents the first systematic investigation of refugees' loss of their old identities and their efforts to construct new ones. Edited by the Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee on Refugee Issues (CORI) of the American Anthropological Association, it critically examines the interplay between cultural, ethnic, and gender constructions among resettled refugee populations. Each chapter is grounded in anthropological theory and method, and the book's framework demonstrates the relationship between the dynamics of forced migration and the ways in which ethnic and gender identities are reinvented in new socio-cultural settings. Unanimous in their perception of boundary maintenance as central to identity formation, these essays allow readers to view refugee resettlement as a creative, experimental process.


Ways to Survive, Battles to Win

Ways to Survive, Battles to Win

Author: Halleh Ghorashi

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781590335529

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A former Iranian leftist political activist (now an assistant professor of anthropology at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) explores issues of exile and identity among a group of Iranian women forced to leave Iran during or after the Iranian revolution of 1979, weaving in her own experiences as a political exile. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).


Contacts and Contrasts in Educational Contexts and Translation

Contacts and Contrasts in Educational Contexts and Translation

Author: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-05

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 3030049787

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This volume covers descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena and processes which emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in educational and translation contexts. It contains eleven papers, divided into two parts, which focus respectively on the issues of language and culture acquisition and a variety of translation practices (general language, literature, music translation) from socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives.


Elder Voices

Elder Voices

Author: Daniel F. Detzner

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780759105775

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Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal insider personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.


Identity and Marginality in India

Identity and Marginality in India

Author: Anwesha Ghosh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0429882874

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Decades of conflict and war have forced millions of men, women and children to flee from their homes and seek refuge in other parts of the country or in foreign lands - Afghanistan is one such country. This book is a study of the displaced Afghan migrant population in India, in particular the persecuted Sikhs and Hindus who are religious minorities in Afghanistan and make up a majority of Afghan migrants in India. It explores the relationship between acculturation and identity development. By focusing on the interactions between the Afghan immigrant population and the Indian society, the author analyses how the community negotiates identity and marginality in a country that does not recognize them as refugees. The author explains how the Afghan migrant population manages and negotiates various identities, bestowed upon them by the societies in their home and host countries in their day to day existence in India. An important study of acculturation and adaptation issues of migrant groups in the setting of a developing country, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of refugee and migration studies, ethnography of (ethnic) identity, and Middle East and South Asian Studies.


Detaining the Immigrant Other

Detaining the Immigrant Other

Author: Rich Furman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0190222573

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The purpose of this edited book is to explore immigration detention through a global and transnational lens. In addition to exploring the nature of immigration detention, the global aims of the book will be met in two ways: it will explore immigration detention in countries that have often been overlooked in the literature (and certainly are not found in the scholarship emerging from within the United States); and the volume will include chapters that are comparative in nature and deal with larger, macro issues about immigration detention in general.


Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Author: Heather Bleaney

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-02-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 9047416678

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This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.