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A student, Abby Harrison, sent along an article, ‘The Trauma of Facing Deportation’<\/a>, that poses important questions for the class, and perhaps for anthropology in general. The article describes how children facing deportation fall into conditions of apathy, unable to get out of bed. The class this semester hasn’t really considered mental health issues in relation to development and humanitarianism–both that of aid recipients and aid workers–and that’s something that needs to be changed in the course design next year.<\/p>\n The article is also a caution to anthropologists, as it points out how a focus on ‘culture’ can write out political economic and inter-cultural dynamics. It’s important to remember that our work is not simply to explain a phenomenon based on some cultural particularity\u00a0or culturally essentialist reason, but to understand how that phenomenon has come to exist at the intersection of various political, social and historical processes. Here’s the excerpt in mind:<\/p>\n *******<\/p>\n The Swedish government\u2019s report proposed that the apathetic children were from \u201cholistic cultures,\u201d where it is \u201cdifficult to draw boundaries between the individual\u2019s private sphere and the collective domain.\u201d They were sacrificing themselves for their family by losing consciousness. \u201cEven if no direct encouragement or directive is given,\u201d the report said, \u201cmany children raised with holistic thinking may nonetheless act according to the group\u2019s \u2018unspoken\u2019 rules.\u201d<\/p>\n The report seemed to ignore the influence of Sweden\u2019s own culture on the illness. When the Swedish government sent doctors and sociologists to visit Kosovo, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, to find out if the illness was a culturally specific way of reacting to trauma, local doctors said that they had never heard of such symptoms.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_nav _builder_version=”3.0.106″ in_same_term=”off” show_prev=”on” show_next=”on” prev_text=”Previous” next_text=”Next” locked=”on” parent_locked=”off” \/][et_pb_comments _builder_version=”3.0.106″ show_avatar=”on” show_reply=”on” show_count=”on” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ custom_button=”on” button_icon_placement=”right” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_use_icon=”off” locked=”on” parent_locked=”off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Related posts” _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_layout=”light” locked=”on” parent_locked=”off”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Contact Us” text_text_color=”#aaaaaa” parent_locked=”off” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” module_class=”contact-us” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]<\/p>\n +44 (0) 161 306 6000<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Find Us Title” background_layout=”dark” text_text_color=”#ffffff” parent_locked=”off” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Address” background_layout=”dark” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” module_id=”address” parent_locked=”off” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]<\/p>\nRelated<\/h1>\n
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