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Displaced: Refugees, Trauma, and Integration Within Nations

Autor Shaifali Sandhya
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iun 2024

Descoperim în Displaced un instrument de lucru esențial pentru profesioniștii din asistența socială și politicile publice, care mută accentul de la simpla gestionare a fluxurilor de migrație către înțelegerea profundă a traumei ca barieră în calea integrării. Lucrarea semnată de Shaifali Sandhya pornește de la o premisă pragmatică: eșecul națiunilor gazdă de a prioritiza sănătatea mintală a celor peste 117 milioane de persoane strămutate nu reprezintă doar o criză umanitară, ci și una economică și socială. Găsim în acest volum o analiză riguroasă a modului în care stresul posttraumatic netratat devine o „epidemie silențioasă” ce subminează potențialul de autosuficiență al refugiaților.

Considerăm că forța acestei ediții publicate de Oxford University Press rezidă în fundamentarea sa empirică. Shaifali Sandhya nu se limitează la teorie, ci integrează mărturii directe și interviuri cu factori de decizie și manageri de tabere, oferind o perspectivă sistemică asupra proceselor de relocare din Germania, SUA și Marea Britanie. Structura narativă urmărește traseul traumei de la experiențele specifice de gen în timpul războiului, până la mecanismele de transmitere intergenerațională a suferinței. Cartea completează perspectiva oferită de An Uncertain Safety, adăugând o analiză detaliată a modului în care stereotipurile și categoriile sociale modelează identitatea și reziliența refugiaților în noile lor comunități. Dacă titlurile similare se concentrează adesea pe aspectele medicale sau logistice, Displaced reușește să lege sănătatea psihologică de succesul vocațional și educațional, propunând soluții concrete pentru o incluziune reală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197579886
ISBN-10: 0197579884
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: 13
Dimensiuni: 127 x 231 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este o resursă fundamentală pentru cei care activează în asistență socială, psihologie clinică sau politici de migrație. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a legăturii dintre trauma psihologică și capacitatea de integrare economică a refugiaților. Este recomandată deoarece oferă soluții bazate pe dovezi și modele de bune practici din multiple sisteme de azil, fiind utilă atât cercetătorilor, cât și practicienilor care doresc să implementeze tratamente informate despre traumă.


Despre autor

Shaifali Sandhya este o specialistă recunoscută în psihologie, cu o expertiză vastă în studiul dinamicii familiale și al sănătății mintale în contexte interculturale. Formarea sa academică și experiența în cercetare se reflectă în abordarea multidisciplinară a volumului Displaced, unde combină rigoarea statistică cu analiza calitativă. Autorul este cunoscut pentru capacitatea de a traduce concepte psihologice complexe în recomandări de politici publice, având o contribuție semnificativă la înțelegerea modului în care traumele colective și individuale influențează integrarea socială a populațiilor vulnerabile.


Descriere

Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and the pandemic have forced over 117 million people to abandon their homes and heritage. Surging pushbacks, protection gaps, and deportations precipitate refugees' exclusion from equitable economic, social, cultural, political, and reproductive rights, amplifying suffering. As such, displaced communities will shoulder a silent epidemic of posttraumatic stress as well as other debilitating ailments, which are often passed down to future generations. Host nations to which refugees flee do not always associate their psychological well-being with future self-sufficiency and potential for contributions to society, and humanitarian organizations seldom prioritize improved mental health outcomes for refugees. The toll of failing to elevate the importance of refugee mental health is immense, at both individual and societal scales. Drawing on firsthand accounts and empirical research, as well as interviews with government officials, agency directors, and refugee camp managers, Displaced explores the psychological trauma of refugees, the complex interplay between trauma and integration into host nations, and the consequences of failing to attend to refugee mental health as part of comprehensive resettlement initiatives worldwide. Displaced utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to investigate various aspects of refugee trauma, including gender-specific experiences of war; trauma transmission within conflict-affected families; the mental health ramifications of human cruelty such as political torture; local expressions of refugee resilience and illness in their countries of origin; and the role of stereotypes, social categories, and transatlantic networks in shaping refugee identity and resilience.Identifying key themes and resettlement processes of asylum frameworks in Germany, the US, the UK, and elsewhere, the book demonstrates how national policies can affect refugees' self-sufficiency and well-being in host societies, and the essential role of receiving nations in designing better opportunities for their access across vocational, educational, and social domains. Utilizing a systems-informed, evidence-based, and human-rights-oriented approach, Displaced also discusses trauma-informed treatments that may help improve refugee mental health outcomes and enhance inclusivity, along with prosperity for refugees and host nations alike.

Recenzii

Dr. Sandhya helps us understand the relation between trauma and integration for refugee populations worldwide. She draws upon first-hand narratives from hundreds of refugees, skillfully weaving in statistics and historical context lacking from any single academic article in this sphere. Sharing her own clinical and personal experiences, she models the power in vulnerability and openness in our own responses to trauma and emotions that can pose challenges for mental health, legal, and other helping professionals. Dr. Sandhya promises a roadmap for countries, local/regional bodies, and institutions to use in navigating how responses to trauma in refugee populations. Above all, she emphasizes the enormous potential and value to our communities that refugees can bring if properly supported and welcomed.
Shaifali Sandhya's book Displaced by far is probably the only book which touches upon the aspect of trauma of refugees across the world and how their appropriate integration into the mainstream can benefit the society at large. Often, refugees are overlooked as a population which has moved from one country to the other owing to oppression or violence and one bereft of the potential to contribute to nation building. Shaifali's book delves into these intricacies of refugee trauma, post-trauma care, and the geopolitics and provides interesting perspectives which will be useful for not only the general reader but also those who are engaged in various refugee-related work. With the world witnessing increased conflicts, the refugee issue is something that all nations ought to address as a global community with much urgency.
Displaced is an exceptional and wide-ranging examination of the multiplicity of hardships that refugees face in the 21st century. Shaifali Sandhya book will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the individual and collective traumas that affects millions of refugees today. A major contribution to 21st century refugee studies.
Sandhya's Displaced is a compassionate work that will help our most vulnerable world citizens.
This is a comprehensive book that meets its objectives. It is useful for a broad audience seeking to learn about the trauma of refugees and ways to improve their integration into host nations. The information provided, despite being gathered from various resources and told through multiple perspectives, is well-organized. Overall, this book is of utmost quality, providing a thorough understanding of its purpose, the actions that can be taken to improve refugees' mental health outcomes, and the resources that can be sought out for further knowledge.

Notă biografică

Dr. Shaifali Sandhya is a US and UK-trained psychologist. She earned a PhD in Human Development and Psychology from The University of Chicago, US as a Mellon Fellow and an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK as a Cambridge Commonwealth Fellow and Rajiv Gandhi Fellow. As a professor of Clinical Psychology, Dr. Sandhya has taught courses on international mental health, gender, and health disparities in marginalized populations to doctoral students. The author and editor of research articles, books, and chapters, she has conducted interviews with the media and briefed state officials, local legislators, and federal judges to provide independent assessments of the social and mental health impacts on varied topics such as asylum and immigration, environmental resources, and community health. Dr. Sandhya's work has been featured in international media including the New York Times, Fox TV, CBS, US News and World Report, and National Public Radio. Dr. Sandhya is an expert coupleand family therapist and an internationally acclaimed book author. Her previous book Love will Follow: Why the Indian Marriage is Burning was published by Penguin Random House.