Being Human, Being Migrant

Anne Sigfrid Gronseth is an Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University College of Lillehammer, Norway, where she directs the Research Unit of Health, Culture, and Identity. Her most recent publication is Lost Selves and Lonely Persons: Experiences of Illness and Well-Being among Tamil Refugees in Norway (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being Anne Sigfrid Gronseth Chapter 1. Fantasy, Subjectivity and Vulnerability through the Story of a Woman Asylum Seeker in Italy Barbara Pinelli Chapter 2. Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future: Exploring Tamil refugees' Sense of Identity and Agency Anne Sigfrid Gronseth Chapter 3. Narrating Mobile Belonging: A Dutch Story of Subjectivity in Transformation Maruska Svasek Chapter 4. Well-being and the Implication of Embodied Memory: from the Diary of a Migrant Woman Naoko Maehara Chapter 5. Towards a 'Re-Envisioning of the Everyday' in Refugee Studies Christina Georgiadou Chapter 6. Behind the Iron Fence: (Dis)placing Boundaries, Initiating Silences Masa Mikola Epilogue: A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility. Nigel Rapport List of Contributors

"It is refreshing to find a volume that both shows commitment to ethnographic detail and aspires to lift consideration to a broader level, reaching back to the nihil humani a me alienum puto perspective, but with new and nuanced narratives to give that perspective a special appeal." * Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, University of Pittsburgh "This is an original and persuasively argued volume on the everyday lives of contemporary migrants in Europe. Living up to its title, the edited volume makes us aware of the fact that narratives of 'migrancy' and movement tell us much about the human condition more generally." * Claudia Liebelt, Universitat Bayreuth