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UNINA9910453662603321 |
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Karp David Allen <1944-> |
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Titolo |
The burden of sympathy [[electronic resource] ] : how families cope with mental illness / / David A. Karp |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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0-19-028824-8 |
1-280-83768-3 |
9786610837687 |
0-19-802870-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Caregivers |
Mentally ill - Family relationships |
Mentally ill - Home care |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-302) and index. |
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: Illness and Obligation; TWO: Bearing Responsibility; THREE: Managing Emotions; FOUR: Family Ties; FIVE: The Four Cs; SIX: Surviving the System; SEVEN: Caring in Postmodern America; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
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In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw ""boundaries of sympathy"" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one. Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a socially stigmatized illness; the frustration of navigating the complex network of bureaucracies that govern the mental health system; and most of all, the difficulty negotiating an "" |
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UNINA9910779436003321 |
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Colombo E |
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Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World [[electronic resource] ] : A Generational Experience / / by E. Colombo, P. Rebughini |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
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1-283-86777-X |
1-137-00529-7 |
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[1st ed. 2012.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Collana |
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Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, , 2662-2602 |
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305.230869120945 |
305.235086912 |
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Sociology |
Childhood |
Adolescence |
Political sociology |
Emigration and immigration |
Social policy |
Ethnicity |
Sociology, general |
Childhood, Adolescence and Society |
Political Sociology |
Migration |
Social Policy |
Ethnicity Studies |
Italy Emigration and immigration Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Outline of chapters; 1 The Future of Immigrants' Children in a Globalized World; On inclusion; The predicament of assimilation; The segmented assimilation theory; The transnational turn; Looking beyond assimilation and transnationalism; Social policies and integration paths: Britain and France; Changing contexts and personal capacities; A generational |
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experience; Generational marks; A generational avant-garde; A potential active minority; Ambivalences of inclusion; 2 Framing Contexts and Actors; Introduction; Panel and methodology |
A generational perspectiveA potential avant-garde and the self-selection of the panel; The focus on a multicultural urban context; The Italian context; An overview of the 'First' generation; Being children of immigrants in contemporary Italy; The Mediterranean perspective: children of immigrants in Southern Europe; 3 A Specific Generational Location; Finding new global locations; Complex connectivity and persistence of family ties; Facing exclusion; Beyond family ties; Fluctuating between culture and way of life; Dual competence; 4 Multiple Belonging; The complexity of belonging |
Documents that matterBeing accepted as people; Belonging as allegiance; Being recognized as people deserving a hearing; Fluid and differentiated belonging; 5 Complex Identifications; Hyphenated identification; Different ways of interpreting hyphenated identification; Symbolic and instrumental; Transnational and reactive responses; A different point of view; Resisting categorization; Difference as a resource; When skin colour and gender matter; Tactical ethnicity; 6 Children of Immigrants in Search of Justness; Living on the move; From coherence to justness; What is justness? |
Difference, merit, autonomyAmbivalences of justness; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index |
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This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, comparing the lives of Mediterranean youths with those from America and Northern Europe. |
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