Full Description
Refugees don't just survive displacement, they build strength, community, and new ways of coping that challenge everything we know about mental health.
The Migrant Art of Coping shares stories of refugees navigating harsh borders, restrictive laws, and failing support systems. Each chapter offers a truth about what happens at the margins that holds lessons for people at the centre.
Whether you're a mental health professional, a concerned citizen, or simply curious about how people find hope in the face of upheaval, this book will shift the way you see anxiety, identity, and healing. By learning from those at the margins, we can build a better mental health system for everyone.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Moving Through an Anti-Migration World
1. Sanctuary Seekers at the Crossroads of Mental Health
2. Living Under the Weight of the Law
3. State, Charity and Legal Support: Blessing or Curse?
Part II: Resistance and Healing in Motion
4. Refusing to Be Erased
5. Building Bridges Through, Across and Because of Borders
6. Support that Moves with Lived Experience
Part III: Arriving at a New Mental Health
7. A Worldview of Mental Health
8. Decolonising Mental Health Services
9. The Art of Coping
Glossary
Notes
Index
