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Chapter 19 - Interrogating Legality and Legitimacy in the Post-migratory Context

Working around Traumatic Repetition and Reenactment with Refugee Families

from Part III - Intersectoral Psychosocial Interventions in Working with Refugee Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2020

By
Cécile Rousseau
Edited by
Lucia De Haene  and
Cécile Rousseau
Lucia De Haene
Affiliation:
University of Leuven, Belgium
Cécile Rousseau
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
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Summary

"This chapter proposes that the notions of protection and family are negotiated in complex and often conflictual ways among refugee families and host country institutions, sometimes becoming pivotal parts of re-enactment scenarios in which the apprehended repetition of trauma transforms the potential protective nature of the host society into a space perceived as violent. After briefly situating this topic in the field of the legal consciousness studies, the plurality of meanings evoked by the concepts of family and protection is examined, as well as the ways in which the present refugee resettlement context transforms the perceptions of family members’ obligations and rights in a specific social space. Clinical situations are presented to show how what clinicians consider as legal obligations and boundaries need to be constantly interrogated from a legitimacy point of view and how this raises challenging ethical and clinical dilemmas for mental health and social professionals."

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Working with Refugee Families
Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships
 , pp. 309 - 321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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