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Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development

I The context – prolegomena The epistemological cycle Central dilemmas Epistemology The epistemological cycle Processing under confusing and discerning complexity Typical epistemological errors in addressing adversity (a) Confusion between the events and the experience of events (b) Confusion between the various overlapping discourses, e.g. legal, ethical, social, political, psychological, spiritual, historical, human rights, economic, etc. and inappropriate domination of some discourses over others (c) Pathologising those we want to help (d) Causal relationship between three dimensions: (a) the severity of adversity, (b) the degree of damage inflicted, and (c) the amount of help required (e) Pathologising the survivors in order to condemn the perpetrators (f) Confusion between being a ‘victim of circumstances’ and developing a ‘victim identity’(g) Resorting to what is familiar and oversimplified, in order to explain a complex and painful phenomenon Concluding reflections References Involuntary dislocation ‘Involuntary’‘Dislocation’The six segments of the involuntary dislocation process ‘Forced migration’ and ‘forced displacement’Classifications of upheavals leading to migration Six categories of upheavals leading to involuntary dislocation ‘Psychosocial marginalisation’ and ‘psychological exile’Concluding reflections References Historical and language reflections Migration: introductory reflections Nostos The Babylonian exile: galut and metoikesia The Babylonian exile: omissions and apoikesia Concluding reflections References Public tragedies and polymorphous helplessness Involuntary dislocation: relevant dimensions and perspectives Adversities and public tragedies Interactional Matrix of Intervention and polymorphous helplessness References II Key themes Home Home: dislocation and relocation processes Homeness: essentialist and constructivist approaches Home: a central paradox Archetypal images of home Home: meanings and magic Studying home Concluding reflections and relational spacetime References Identity Identity - an elusive concept but a central experience A diagrammatic framework of identity Onto-ecological settledness Identities: key characteristics and alterations under adversity Concluding reflections References Nostalgic disorientation Self-experienced reality and others-attested reality Onto-ecological unsettledness Nostalgic disorientation Addressing nostalgic disorientation Easing nostalgic disorientation Nostalgia and anostalgia The Odyssey and homecomings References The victim Studying victims Victim identity characteristics Self-help, philanthropy, philanthrocapitalism, and psycho-philanthrocapitalism Degrees of victimisation and the Victim Grid Victim Triangle dynamics Beyond the triangular form - the Victim Diamond Depotentiating the archetypal structures of the victim drama Concluding reflections References Trauma Trauma: a word for all seasons Etymological explorations and the choreography of trauma Trauma: historical perspectives (a) Personal and socio-political contexts of distressing experiences (b) Theorising trauma in the development of psychology as a discipline (c) The development of the term trauma in therapeutic contexts Concluding reflections References III Engaging with involuntary dislocation Involuntary dislocation adversities ‘Refugee trauma’: a problematic concept The sequential, constructed process of the adversity impact Meaning Attribution Processes Family and social factors can be considered as subcategories of this group that address relational factors.Epistemological punctuation; mark and sign The range of impacts from adversity: the Adversity Grid (a) Negative responses to adversity (b) Unchanged responses to adversity (c) Positive responses to adversity Further considerations about the Adversity Grid Adversity Grid administration and applications References Epilogue: Synergic Therapeutic Complexity and being therapeutic

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Involuntary dislocation
Contents ‘Involuntary’ 40 ‘Dislocation ’ 41 The six segments of the involuntary dislocation process 42 ‘Forced migration’and ‘forced displacement’ 43 Classifications of upheavals leading to migration 45 Six categories of upheavals leading to involuntary...
(Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development)
The six segments of the involuntary dislocation process
(a) The experience of being involuntarily dislodged from feeling at home, while being at the space that one considers home. This is what has been referred to above as the primary, initial, or ‘internal’ dislocation, understood as the sense of no longer experiencing home as home, as a safe and viable...
(Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development)
categories of upheavals leading to involuntary dislocation
Political This category refers to upheavals that are caused by various types of political factors, e.g. acute or chronic political conflict, oppression from totalitarian regimes, civil unrest and other types of civil violence due to political factors, economic sanctions, various types of...
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Involuntary dislocation: relevant dimensions and perspectives
In the preceding chapters, I discussed the importance of examining how we form our perceptions of phenomena of involuntary dislocation (and human suffering, in general), using the epistemological cycle and reflections from key historical and linguistic examples. In this chapter, I develop further...
(Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development)
Engaging with involuntary dislocation
Chapter 10 Involuntary dislocation adversities Contents ‘Refugee traumaa problematic concept 252 Phases of involuntary dislocation 253 The sequential, constructed process of the adversity impact 256 Meaning Attribution Processes 258 (a) Personal factors 259...
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Involuntary dislocation adversities
Contents ‘Refugee traumaa problematic concept 252 Phases of involuntary dislocation 253 The sequential, constructed process of the adversity impact 256 Meaning Attribution Processes 258 (a) Personal factors 259 (b) Relational factors 259 Family 260 Community/socialfactors...
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Economic dislocation and trauma
What has become of the blue-collar worker? Over the past half-century, neoliberal restructuring has challenged the optimistic view of the post-World War II era that the market economy could provide socioeconomic stability through an enduring labour-capital pact. Indeed, dislocation and trauma have become...
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SO MANY HOUSES, AS MANY HOMES?: Transnational housing, migration, and development
Migrants’ cross-border housing strategies and practices, and their ways of locating and establishing ‘home’ across countries, are not the most obvious of topics in the context of migration and development. On the one hand, the building or refurbishment of migrants’ houses in the countries...
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Developing self reliance and resilience in enabling social mobility
It is the behaviours and skills of self-regulation and self-management that will be critical in individuals being able to make the most of their careers in a constantly changing labour market. The careers profession has branched out beyond the perceived traditional role of providing information and advice...
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Achieving economic resilience and a more balanced development
Since 2012, Jordan has been classified by the World Bank as an "upper-middle income" country due to steady growth rates of between 4% and 8% during the years 2000s. Following the onset of the global financial and economic crisis, the first half of the years 2010s has seen significantly lower levels of...
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