Reflections
Chapter 6 reflects on the challenges to theory, method, and rhetoric that occur in the study of exile. The author outlines the ways in which those challenges occur on both scientific and emotional levels in his own fieldwork. He then discusses what these challenges mean for questions of understanding and representation and situates those challenges with within the much-used framework of human rights when discussing exiles. Finally, the author revisits the changes that occurred to psychology as a discipline in the years following World War II. The current historical moment provides some frightening parallels that demand psychology’s engagement. That engagement, the author argues, can be led by narrative work.