Full Description
This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world.
Considering patterns and findings across disciplines, cultural contexts, and methodologies, the volume addresses the way trauma is passed on generationally among populations characterized by a large exodus from various regions, and communities in which intergenerational trauma can be observed among second-generation youth. Drawing on studies of displaced communities worldwide, this comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis examines the effects of transgenerational trauma. It explores definitions and concepts of intergenerational trauma, comparing and contrasting perspectives across generations, and the mechanisms at work in its transmission.
The volume is well suited for scholars across social sciences with interests in memory studies, political violence, and refugee and diaspora studies.
Contents
'Introduction. Introduction. 1. Returning to the Roots: Transgenerational Trauma, Diaspora Community, and the Armenian Pilgrimage to the Lost Homeland. 2. Refugee Literary Space: Silences, Intergenerational Trauma, and Resilience. 3. Intergenerational Transmission of Traumatic Experiences among Palestinian Refugees. 4. Holocaust Survivors, Siberians, Refugees, Veterans - Memory and Choice of Jewish Returnees from the USSR to Poland (1945-2024). 5. In the Aftermath of Silence: An Intergenerational Burden of Recognition in Postgeneration Holodomor Survivor Literature. 6. "La Sobrevivencia y la Resistencia" (Survival and Resilience): The Experience of Intergenerational Trauma Transmission in Nicaraguan American Families. 7. Intergenerational Trauma among Refugees in Africa and the African Diaspora. 8. Marginalization as Traumatization: Developmentally Based Trauma Framework for Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Somali Refugees. 9. The Long Shadow of the Eritrean Independence Struggle: Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma across Diaspora Generations. 10. The Elephant in the Room: Experiences of Intergenerational Trauma in Second-Generation Bosnian Americans. 11. German Perversions of Mental Health Care: Male Afghan Refugees, Deportation, and Carceral Systems during NATO's War in Afghanistan. 12. History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans. 13. The Psychological Well-Being of Children in North Korean Defector Families: The Impact of Intergenerational Trauma. 14. Learning Refugee Trauma and Politics through Community Arts Organizing. 15. The Unheard and Unseen Perspectives on Intergenerational Trauma.
