Home » Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health
Product Image

Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health

€210.80
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
Aboriginal Patients
Abroad
Alcohol
Ashburn Hall
Assimilation
Asylum
Asylum Admissions
asylum history
Asylums
Auckland Asylum
Australia
British India
Category=JBFH
Category=JBSL
colonial psychiatry
Confinement Act
Congenital Idiocy
Congenital Idiots
Doctor
Early Colonial Fiji
Economic crises
Education
Emigrate
Employment
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
ethnic identity studies
Foreign Born
foreign-born migrants
Great Famine
Hereditary Insanity
historical analysis of migrant mental illness
Hospitals
Immigrants
Immigration
Insanity
Irish Mental Health
Large Database Analysis
Literature
medical workforce migration
Medicine
mental health
mental health policy
Migrant's Mental Health
Migrants
Nationalism
New Zealand
Patient Case Notes
Patient Case Records
patients ethnicity
Paul Gauguin
Poverty
Provincial Asylum
psychiatric epidemiology
Psychiatric Provision
psychiatry histories
Public Lunatic Asylums
Racial Degeneracy
Refugees
Registered Psychiatric Nurses
Science
Settlement
Snaith Hamilton Pleasure Scale
Suburbs
transnational mental health
Unemployment
Welfare
Yarra Bend
Young Man
Zealand High Commission

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415895804
  • Weight: 580g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Dec 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and were among the chief reasons for committal to an asylum. Significant analysis of this problem, addressing the interconnected issues of migration, ethnicity, and insanity, has to date received little attention from the scholarly community.

This international collection examines the difficulties that migrants faced in adjustment abroad, through a focus on migrants and mobile peoples, issues of ethnicity, and the impact of migration on the mental health of refugees. It further extends the migration paradigm beyond patients to incorporate the international exchange of medical ideas and institutional practices, and the recruitment of a medical workforce. These issues are explored through case studies which utilize different social and cultural historical methods, but with a shared twin purpose: to uncover the related histories of migration, ethnicity, and mental health, and to extend existing scholarly frameworks and findings in this under-developed field of inquiry.

About
Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Associate Director of its Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. She is the author and editor of several books on Irish and Scottish migration and of a pioneering article on migration, ethnicity, and madness published in Social History of Medicine (2008). Catharine Coleborne is Associate Professor in History in the History Programme, School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research interests include histories of families and institutions, mental health and oral histories, colonial psychiatry, ethnicity and gender. Her most recent book is Madness in the Family (2010).