World in motion—the emotional impact of mass migration

Abstract

I feel very honoured and am enormously pleased to have been invited to speak here at the 17th Symposium of the Group Analytic Society International in Berlin. It means a lot to me, to be able to speak here today, because Berlin is a very special place for me. It is here, in this town, that my Jewish grandfather met my Christian grandmother almost 100 years ago. They fell in love and about a year later my mother was born. 20 years later my Jewish grandfather was forced to leave Germany, together with his new family. Therefore, I never had a chance to get to know him. When I was 20, I myself left Germany to live in New Orleans, USA. I stayed there for five years and then returned to Germany. It cannot be denied, migration and refuge have always been an issue in my family and in my personal life, that is why I cannot talk about migration and refugees without emotions and without being moved. This can be sensed and felt also in the following explorations and thoughts about the emotional impact of mass migration.

Baimės atmosfera ir (ne)saugūs namai: (i)migrantų iš Lietuvos Norvegijoje atvejis

“…Remdamasi negausiu autorių skaičiumi ji teigia, kad socialiniams moks lams nepaprastai svarbu plėtoti emocijų temą migracijų studijose, nes ji atsklei džia (i)migrantų kognityvinį integracijos aspektą (Albrecht 2016: 27). Keletas kitų autorių taip pat pripažįsta poreikį migracijos studijas papildyti emocijų aspektu bei tinkamai apibrėžti emocijų svarbą migracijos kontekste (Gu 2010;Rohr 2018).…”

“…Jau gerokai anksčiau antropologas Victoras Turneris kalbėjo apie liminalią erdvę, siekdamas parodyti tam tikrą tranzitinę būseną, perėjimą iš seno į nauja, bet kartu pabrėždamas ir laikiną "sustojimą", reiškiantį nei buvimą "ten", nei "čia". Šią Turnerio mintį pasiskolino Elisabeth Rohr kalbėdama apie (i)migran tų emocines nuostatas, patiriamas transnacionaliniame socialiniame lauke (Rohr 2018). Anot šios mokslininkės, kalbant apie (i)migrantus, jų atvykimo šalyje pa tiriamas emocijas, taip pat tinka vartoti liminalumo sąvoką.…”

Response to ‘World in motion—the emotional impact of mass migration’ by Elisabeth Rohr

“…Response to 'World in motion-the emotional impact of mass migration' by Elisabeth Rohr MJ Maher Ladies and gentlemen, it is an immense pleasure and honour to respond to Professor Elisabeth Rohr's article (Rohr, 2018), which has been presented with so much passion and sensitivity. When I was invited to respond to Elisabeth I was so excited that I forgot to be nervous, so I might play catch up now.…”