{"id":1794,"date":"2018-01-08T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2018-01-08T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:39:35","slug":"struggling-with-imaginaries-of-trauma-and-trust-the-refugee-experience-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Struggling with Imaginaries of Trauma and Trust: The Refugee Experience in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Corina Salis Gross<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1023\/B:MEDI.0000034408.60968.eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1023\/B:MEDI.0000034408.60968.eb<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><span id=\"more-1758\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>This article discusses some effects of migration politics on asylum seekers and refugees and on the Swiss health services. It is based on multisited ethnographic research that tracked interpretative concepts of the refugee experience. Following a grounded theory approach, it identifies imaginaries of trauma and trust as key categories in the field of transnational migration and health. The psychiatric concept of trauma and a more popularized discourse of traumatic memory are strongly emphasized in all of the investigated field sites: the providers of primary health care and psychosocial services and representatives of social welfare agencies and law-making bodies use this \u201cdiagnosis\u201d extensively. This leads refugees to develop tactics of a) identifying with the trauma discourse in order to become \u201cgood refugees\u201d and achieve legal status in Switzerland; b) struggling with the ascribed pathologies and suffering from retraumatizing effects of these predominant trauma policies; and c) trying to refuse or subvert them by emphasizing the existence of structural violence in the receiving countries. An analysis of the interactions of health providers and refugees shows that it takes place in an environment of social and economic insecurity and in a shared imaginary of (mis)trust, putting at stake the moral economy of recent migration politics and the refugee experience.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Keywords<\/strong> : <span class=\"Keyword\">migration, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">moral economy, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">refugee experience, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">trauma, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">trust, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">Switzerland\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Corina Salis Gross Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1023\/B:MEDI.0000034408.60968.eb Abstract: This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[85,7,173,9,157,185,36,338,177,469,470,416],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-85","tag-article","tag-cross-cultural-communication","tag-english-language","tag-health-care","tag-mental-health","tag-migration-policy","tag-posttraumatic-stress-disoorder","tag-psychological-well-being","tag-social-insecurity","tag-trauma","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}