Search for dissertations about: "Richard Rechtman"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Richard Rechtman.

2. 1. Surviving trauma in exile and the integration-conundrum : navigating therapy and the imperatives of a host(ile?) society

   Author : Mayssa Rekhis; Richard Rechtman; Rebecca Popenoe; Miriam Ticktin; Lotte Segal; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Trauma; Psychotherapy; Refugees; Migration; Ethnography; Integration; Exile; Survival;

   Abstract : “Undesirables” of the contemporary world (Agier, 2008), refugees are often considered “Others” whose lives can be wasted, at deadly borders, in detention centers, or at the margins of societies. Proving their suffering is a condition for accessing the right to asylum, but the current migration policies in the host countries expect them to quickly overcome it, and integrate, as a way to pay back for the protection they received. READ MORE