Migration and mental health : past and present /: past and present. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marjory Harper, editor.
• Editors: Harper, Marjory
• Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; List of Tables ; Part I: Conceptual Approaches; Chapter 1: Introduction; Historiography and Terminology; Themes, Debates and Paradoxes; Chapter 2: Unravelling 'Mental Illness': What Exactly Are We Talking About?; Introduction; Mental Illness as a Thin and Vague Concept; The Somatization of Depression; Making Up People: Mental Illness as a Flexible Concept; Naming and Acting; Categorizing Experience; The Case of Depression; Exporting Madness; Suffering Differently; The Problem with PTSD; Naming Things Properly Conclusion: Why We Might Want to Name Things a Little DifferentlyChapter 3: Critical Perspectives on Histories of 'Madness' and Migration ; Introduction ; Wandering Lunatics and Changing Spaces of Madness ; Madness and Migration: Living in-Between ; Transitional Spaces of Madness and Migration ; Exclusion, Spatial Fixing and Classification of Mobilityand Madness ; Psychiatry and the Re-evaluation of Migrationand Madness ; Conclusion ; Part II: Historical Perspectives; Chapter 4: On Being Insane in Alien Places: Case Histories from British India, c. 1800-1930; Popular Views; Medical Views Official Views On Becoming Insane in Alien Places; The White Man's Burden; Aliens and 'Natives'; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Unsettled States: Madness and Migration in Cape Town, c. 1920; Introduction; Thinking Outside the Asylum; Morality, Migration and the Family; Deviance and Distress; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Ethnicities and Environments: Perceptions of Alienation and Mental Illness Among Scottish and Scandinavian Settlers in North America, c. 1870-c. 1914; Alien Environments: Disillusionment, Distress and Dislocation; Pathologies of Alienation; Conclusion Chapter 7: Stories of Immigrant Isolation and Despair: Canadian Novels and Memoirs Since the 1850s The Case of Grace Marks; Western Perspectives; Chapter 8: Mad Migrants and the Reach of English Civil Law; British Subjects; Colonial Matters; Contests with Foreign States; Conclusion; Chapter 9: Canada's Deportation of 'Mentally and Morally Defective' Female Immigrants After the Second World War; Introduction; Methodology; The Postwar Years; The Immigration Legislation and Process; Statistical Profile of the Female Mental Health Deportees; Experiences of Mental Health Deportees Cooperation Between Physicians and the StateDeportation Results; Conclusion; Part III: Anthropological and Personal Reflections; Chapter 10: Between the Past and the Future: Migration and Melancholic Nationalism in Iceland; Introduction; Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Contemporary Iceland: A Few Numbers and Some Local Discourses; Collapse: Past, Present, Future; Mourning and Melancholia: The Play of Identification; Mourning the 'Icelandic' Thing; Conclusion
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.2086/91; History; Emigration and immigration -- Mental health; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; History; Social history; Transients and Migrants -- psychology; Emigrants and Immigrants -- psychology; Emigration and Immigration -- history; Mental Disorders -- history; Social history; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137529688; 1137529687
• Related ISBNs: 9781137529671; 1137529679
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 3, 2016).
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