scholarly journals Genres of Departure: Forced Migrants’ Family Separation and Personal Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Johanna Hiitola ◽  
Valtteri Vähä-Savo
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Forced Migrants

scholarly journals The Psychological Impact of Extended Temporary Protection

Refuge ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 81-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fethi Mansouri ◽  
Stephanie Cauchi
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Temporary Protection ◽  
Exclusionary Policies ◽  
Host Government

Against the background of the recent international trend of a greater reliance on deterrence measures in managing the flow of asylum seekers, this paper discusses the implementation of the temporary protection visa (TPV) in Australia. It focuses on the psychological impact of the TPV policy on individual asylum seekers and how this unlimited temporary status affects the overall process of settlement. This study is based on personal narratives constructed by individual asylum seekers during one-onone interviews aimed at sketching the mental and psychological manifestations of stressful events in their lives as TPV holders. What is particularly revealing among many of these TPV holders is the fact that their pre-migration traumatic experiences are compounded by a post-migration condition of being in indefinite “temporary” protection. This is further exacerbated by a prevalence of racialized discourses and exclusionary policies advocated by the host government. Past trauma and persecution, combined with present family separation and social exclusion, and further compounded by uncertainty about the future, had resulted in almost chronic states of anxiety and depression among a significant number of TPV holders.

Brutally Revealing: Voices Rising Out of San Quentin State Prison

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Diane Ketelle
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Writing Workshop ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Prison Life

This manuscript recounts the writing of inmates in a writing workshop project taught by the author at San Quentin State Prison. Through the process of writing personal narratives the inmates came to render new meaning from their lived experience. The process of writing bypassed rigid defenses developed in prison, and inmates were able to write and share without being left vulnerable. Writing, in this way, helped inmates who participated to escape the monotony and boredom of prison life and provided opportunity for reflection and personal growth.

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