Roots and routes of displacement and trauma
Subtitle: from analysis to advocacy and policy to practice
By: edited by Soheila Pashang and Sheila Gruner
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Rock's Mills Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oakville, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780988129344
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Refugees; Forced migration; Displacement (Psychology); Psychological Displacement; Réfugiés; Migration forcée; Déplacement (Psychologie)
Description: "A ground-breaking examination of displacement and its traumatic outcomes in the Canadian and global context, with an emphasis on the root causes of displacement, its history and effects, and key social work methodologies and best practices for working with immigrants who are survivors of displacement and trauma"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Soheila Pashang and Sheila Gruner; title: pt. 1. Roots and Routes: Contexts of displacement. Bridging theory: A critical and decolonizing approach to displacement and trauma / Sheila Gruner; title: 2. Restoring ourselves as indigenous nations: An Anishinabe Kew's perspective; title: 3. Environmental migration: A critical review of concepts, policy and literature / Sephehr Pashang.; title: 4. Problems of territory, nationhood and the "Stateless": The situation facing Roma / Neil Cruickshank; title: 5. "That thing": HIV/AIDS trauma, stigma and displacement / Jennifer Clarke and Soheila Pashang; title: 6. Mayan resistance to mining development and displacement in Guatemala: A new vision for life / Edgar Godoy; title: 7. War, displacement and trauma / Ezat Mossallanejad.; title: pt. 2. Politics of displacement and trauma. 8. The social and political context of Iraqi refugee women's trauma / Sajedeh Zahraei; title: 9. Gender and trauma: The case of Afghanistan / Sharifa Sharif; title: 10. The politics of death: Situatiing immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers / Soheila Pashang; title: 11. Life in limbo: Depathologizing trauma / Angie Arora, Ezat Mossallenejad and Rubaiyat Karim; title: 12. Working as the "other": Migration, race, gender and wellbeing / Tania Das Gupta.; title: pt. 3. Action, policy and practice. 13. Ethical considerations in working with refugees / Donald Payne; title: 14. Barriers to accessing health care for refugees, government policy and the health care communities' response / Doug Gruner, Janet Cleveland, Laila Demirdache and Kevin Pottie; title: 15. Race-based stigma as a determinant of access and support in black mothers' experience of loss to gun violence / Annette Bailey, Jennifer Clarke and Bukola Salami; title: 16. From displacement and residential schools to art, archive and healing / Jonathan Dewar; title: 17. Art as a tool for resistance and recovery / Bethany Osborne.