After deportation: ethnographic perspectives by Shahram Khosravi

Healing Performances: Ethnographic Concepts and Emic Perspectives

This paper looks at healing performances as ethnographic expressions of local knowledge and culture embedded within the Malay psyche and gemeinschaft. As society develops and progresses, these healing performances are caught within conflicting trajectories which become compounded by the contestations of tradition, religious concerns, locality and modernity. As exemplifications of the Malay etho...

Ethnographic perspectives on global mental health.

The field of Global Mental Health (GMH) aims to influence mental health policy and practice worldwide, with a focus on human rights and access to care. There have been important achievements, but GMH has also been the focus of scholarly controversies arising from political, cultural, and pragmatic critiques. These debates have become increasingly polarized, giving rise to a need for more dialog...

Economic Geography & Deportation∗

I study the long-run economic effects of a policy of deporting undocumented immigrants. To evaluate such a policy, I develop a dynamic spatial growth model featuring migration, endogenous innovation, and economic geography. Using this framework, I simulate various deportation policy scenarios for the United States and quantify gains and losses in welfare and real wages, both in the aggregate an...

Ethnographic demography: the use of ethnographic texts by demographers

Medical risks during flight deportation of refugees

Several medical and psychological factors should be considered regarding refugees repatriated by aircraft to their home countries. Traumatized refugees warrant special concern, but differential treatment among western countries generates controversy. Austria generally accepts that traumatized refugees, especially those suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), should not be subjected...