1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453662603321

Autore

Karp David Allen <1944->

Titolo

The burden of sympathy [[electronic resource] ] : how families cope with mental illness / / David A. Karp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-028824-8

1-280-83768-3

9786610837687

0-19-802870-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

362.20422

Soggetti

Caregivers

Mentally ill - Family relationships

Mentally ill - Home care

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 ""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779436003321

Autore

Colombo E

Titolo

Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World [[electronic resource] ] : A Generational Experience / / by E. Colombo, P. Rebughini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-86777-X

1-137-00529-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, , 2662-2602

Disciplina

305.230869120945

305.235086912

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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.