Emotions and Human Mobility : Ethnographies of Movement

ISBN-13: 9780415507608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 176 str.

Maruska Svasek

Opis

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Eight ethnographic case studies deal with issues as varied as the fear, contempt and empathy felt by immigration officers in a British Immigration Removal Centre and the ambiguous feelings of Japanese wives living in Ireland.

Spis treści

1. Emotions and Human Mobility: Key Concerns Maruška Svašek  2. ‘These People Could Be Anyone’: Fear, Contempt (and Empathy) in a British Immigration Removal Centre Alexandra Hall  3. ‘Unkind Cuts’: Health Policy and Practice versus the Health and Emotional Well-Being of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Ireland Katy Radford  4. Sensuous Multiculturalism: Emotional Landscapes of Interethnic Living in Australian Suburbia Amanda Wise  5. Gossiping in the Polish Club: An emotional coexistence of ‘old’ and ‘new’ migrants Aleksandra Galasińska  6. Emotional Ambiguity: Japanese Migrant Women in Mixed Families and their Life Transition Naoko Maehara  7. The Hindi Film’s Romance and Tibetan Notions of Harmony: Emotional Attachments and Personal Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora in India Timm Lau  8. The Politics of Hope and Disappointment: Ambivalence in the Post-1989 Homeland-Related Discourse Among Hungarians in Australia Petra Andit  9. Emotions, Emotives and Political Negotiations: Transforming Relationships in the Bohemian-Bavarian Border Area Maruška Svašek

O autorze

Maruška Svašek is Senior Lecturer at the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast, and co-director of the Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network (CDEN). Her research interests include emotions, migration, material culture and ageing. Recent publications include Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Productions and Emotions (2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007), and Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (2006).