Migration as intergenerational emotional homelessness: a personal - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

AFT conference 2018 Migration as intergenerational emotional homelessness: a personal story Paper published on Human Systems: The Journal of Therapy, Consultation and Training Volume No 27, Issue 3, 2016: 289-294 Available @ www.familytherapyservicesrainbow.org Chiara Santin Systemic and family therapist Supervisor and trainer

Warming the context The aftermath of brexit vote The refugees problem A humanitarian disaster Dismantling the jungle - a socio-political shame https://www.youtube.com/watch? time_continue=10&v=3hPS4_LAO fI

“Your mother is here tonight, Marwan, with us, on this cold moonlight beach, among crying babies and the women worrying in tongue we don’t speak. Afghans and Somalis and Iraquis and Eritrean and Syrians. All of us impatient for sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home.” Khaled Hosseini, 2018

My personal story: home and homelessness One of many possible stories…. I “am” complex. I am a dream. I am an ecology of selves We were fed with an illusion that we could choose a singular identity. Nora Bateson (2016:28)

Intergenerational Family Stories “ Communication is two-sided process involving stories that we and others tell to make sense of the world” Pearce (2012:33) Connecting the threads Cultural meanings “In a universe of stories, we experience our identities and those of others Migration as collection of social constructions – Shame assemblies of cultural meanings with myriad origins”. Homelessness Pare’ (1996:33) Dreams

The meaning of HOME

Emotional Homelessness: Looking for a safe haven Wobbly Lost Lonely From childhood to adulthood Edgy Learning to live within and across different worlds Confused

Home sweet home? Home is where the heart is? People Making new & caring for old Places Boundary making & breaking Home making Order out of chaos

Home Making

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fJbqsBALucA Home dreaming