Cultural Anxieties: Managing Migrant Suffering in France

by Stéphanie Larchanche

Cultural Anxieties is a gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist St phanie Larchanch explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants. In particular, she documents how restrictive immigration policies, limited resources, and social anxieties about the "other" combine to constrain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081359538X
• ISBN13: 9780813595382
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher