Mobilities of Self and Place: Politics of Wellbeing in an Age of Migration

Mahni Dugan

doi:10.5771/9781786611611

Summary

When it comes to migration, there is no level playing field. Some people are privileged, advantaged, and supported and others are marginalised, persecuted, and traumatised. The extension of the rights and equalities for which many people advocate, and provision of other extrinsic conditions are insufficient for wellbeing. This work asks: what is sufficient? What is it that people do—and can do—to change their experience from suffering to wellbeing when handling challenges of migration and other mobilities?

What helps people when they are migrating? What have migrants experienced and learned that could be useful to others facing challenges of mobility and change? How can this learning be applied to promote greater social wellbeing and care of environments, in an increasingly mobile world?

Mobilities of Self and Place documents rich conversations with regular migrants and refugees to critically consider migration history, human rights, place, self, and mobilities studies. The work explores ontological and epistemological questions of sense of self, sense of place, identity and agency. Mahni Dugan helps us understand how the relationship between sense of place and sense of self affects the ability of migrants to relocate with wellbeing. The movement from global to local, social to personal, intellectual to experiential offers a broad societal understanding of the phenomena and challenges of contemporary mobilities.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-160-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-161-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 265
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Figures No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. 1. Questions of Rights, Morals, and Ethics No access
  2. A Map of the Book No access
2. 1. Place and Sense of Place No access
  2. Self and Sense of Self No access
3. 1. What Agency Do People Have? No access
  2. Relating Senses of Self and Place and Qualities of Experience No access
  3. Marginalised and Displaced No access
  4. Dependent on Place No access
  5. Independent from Place No access
  6. Interdependent with Place No access
4. 1. Regular Migration No access
  2. Irregular Migration No access
  3. The Case of Australia – Founded on Migration No access
1. 1. Carol No access
  2. Carola No access
  3. Jun No access
  4. Connie No access
  5. Forming Senses of Self No access
2. 1. Kiros No access
  2. Nene No access
  3. Khadga No access
  4. Shoukat No access
  5. Honing Senses of Self No access
3. 1. Julian No access
  2. Yukari No access
  3. Global Senses of Self No access
1. 1. Developing Sense of a New Place No access
  2. Seeking Safety, Territory, Sovereignty, and Citizenship No access
2. 1. Everyday Racism No access
  2. Hierarchies of Belonging No access
  3. Politics of Recognition No access
  4. Community and Freedom of Worship No access
  5. Living in Language No access
3. 1. Identity, Place, and Ethnicity No access
  2. Diverse Practices and Perceptions of Personhood No access
  3. Emerging and Hybrid Cultures No access
  4. Creating Belonging in a New Place No access
  5. The Production of Identity No access
1. 1. Strengthening Sense of Self No access
  2. Sense of Self in Lived Experience No access
  3. Strengthening Sense of Place No access
  4. Sense of Place in Lived Experience No access
2. 11 What Legacy Will We Leave? No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 227 - 242
Index No access Pages 243 - 264
About the Author No access Pages 265 - 265