Anne Sigfrid Grønseth - Being Human, Being Migrant

Being Human, Being Migrant

Published in association with the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Series Editor: James G. Carrier, Senior Research Associate, Oxford Brookes University

Social anthropology in Europe is growing, and the variety of work being done is expanding. This series is intended to present the best of the work produced by members of the EASA, both in monographs and in edited collections. The studies in this series describe societies, processes and institutions around the world and are intended for both scholarly and student readership.

1. LEARNING FIELDS Volume 1

Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Edited by Dorle Drackl, Iain R. Edgar and Thomas K. Schippers

2. LEARNING FIELDS Volume 2

Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education

Edited by Dorle Drackl and Iain R. Edgar

3. GRAMMARS OF IDENTITY/ALTERITY

A Structural Approach

Edited by Gerd Baumann and Andre Gingrich

4. MULTIPLE MEDICAL REALITIES

Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine

Edited by Helle Johannessen and Imre Lzr

5. FRACTURING RESEMBLANCES

Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West

Simon Harrison

6. SKILLED VISIONS

Between Apprenticeship and Standards

Edited by Cristina Grasseni

7. GOING FIRST CLASS?

New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement

Edited by Vered Amit

8. EXPLORING REGIMES OF DISCIPLINE

The Dynamics of Restraint

Edited by Noel Dyck

9. KNOWING HOW TO KNOW

Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present

Edited by Narmala Halstead, Eric Hirsch and Judith Okely

10. POSTSOCIALIST EUROP E

Anthropological Perspectives from Home

Edited by Lszl Krti and Peter Skalnk

11. ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE IN THE PRESENT

Edited by Marit Melhuus, Jon P. Mitchell and Helena Wulff

12. CULTURE WARS

Context, Models and Anthropologists Accounts

Edited by Deborah James, Evelyn Plaice and Christina Toren

13. POWER AND MAGIC IN ITALY

Thomas Hauschild

14. POLICY WORLDS

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright and Davide Per

15. HEADLINES OF NATION, SUBTEXTS OF CLASS

Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe

Edited by Don Kalb and Gabor Halmai

16. ENCOUNTERS OF BODY AND SOUL IN CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Anthropological Reflections

Edited by Anna Fedele and Ruy Llera Blanes

17. CARING FOR THE HOLY LAND

Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel

Claudia Liebelt

18. ORDINARY LIVES AND GRAND SCHEMES

An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

Edited by Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec

19. LANDSCAPES BEYOND LAND

Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

Edited by Arnar rnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst and Andrew Whitehouse

20. CYBERIDENTITIES AT WAR

The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet

Birgit Bruchler

21. FAMILY UPHEAVAL

Generation, Mobility and Relatedness Among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark

Mikkel Rytter

22. PERIPHERAL VISION

Politics, Technology and Surveillance

Catarina Frois

23. BEING HUMAN, BEING MIGRANT

Senses of Self and Well-Being

Edited by Anne Sigfrid Grnseth

24. BEING A STATE AND STATES OF BEING IN HIGHLAND GEORGIA

Florian Mhlfried

25. FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM

Exchange and Ambiguity at Work

Edited by Jens Kjaerulff

26. CONTEMPORARY PAGAN AND NATIVE FAITH MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE

Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Edited by Kathryn Rountree

27. FIGURATION WORK

Student Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy

Gritt B. Nielsen

28. WORLD HERITAGE ON THE GROUND

Ethnographic Perspectives

Edited by Christoph Brumann and David Berliner

29. MOVING PLACES

Relations, Return and Belonging

Edited by Nataa Gregori Bon and Jaka Repi

Published in 2013 by

Berghahn Books

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2013, 2016 Anne Sigfrid Grnseth
First paperback edition published in 2016

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Grnseth, Anne Sigfrid.

Being human, being migrant: sense of self and well-being / edited by Anne Sigfrid Gronseth.

pages cm -- (EASA series; volume 23)

ISBN 978-1-78238-045-0 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-78533-210-4 (paperback) -- ISBN 978-1-78238-046-7 (ebook)

1. Human beings--Migrations. 2. Immigrants--Psychology. 3. Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects. I. Title.

GN370.G76 2013

304.8--dc23

2013020233

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78238-045-0 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-78533-210-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-78238-046-7 ( ebook)

In shaping this volume I have come to owe a debt to many people. I owe gratitude to all the authors of the volume for contributing their research and their insights. I express my sincere thanks to Nigel Rapport, Karen Fog Olwig, Pamela Stewart, Andrew Strathern, and Hogne ian who have enhanced the publication by reading drafts and engaging in discussion. I also thank the EASA series editor James Carrier and the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful and constructive comments that have helped to sharpen the focus of this volume. My thanks also go to the staff at Berghahn Books who have supplied kind and professional assistance throughout the publication process, and Lillehammer University College which has provided a research allowance permitting me to pursue this publication. Not least, I wish to express a heartfelt and humble thankfulness and respect to all the individuals who have allowed their stories and everyday lives to be displayed for publication. I hope that they consider the exposure and engagement in this research to have been worthwhile.

Anne Sigfrid Grnseth