Everyday resilience : narratives of single refugee women with children
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01/09/2013
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This article offers a critical exploration of the concept of resilience, which is largely conceptualized in the literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or ‘bounce back’ to a point of equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored in a range of contexts, there is little recognition of resilience as a social process arising from mundane practices of everyday life and situated in person -environment interactions. Based on an ethnographic study among single refugee women with children in Brisbane, Australia, the women’s stories on navigating everyday tensions and opportunities revealed how resilience was a process operating inter-subjectively in the social spaces connecting them to their environment. Far beyond the simplistic binaries of resilience versus non-resilient, we concern ourselves here with the everyday processual, person environment nature of the concept. We argue that more attention should be paid to day-to-day pathways through which resilience outcomes are achieved, and that this has important implications for refugee mental health practice frameworks. |
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SAGE Publications |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/53025/2/53025.pdf DOI:10.1177/1473325012449684 Lenette, Caroline, Brough, Mark K., & Cox, Leonie (2013) Everyday resilience : narratives of single refugee women with children. Qualitative Social Work, 12(5), pp. 637-653. |
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Copyright 2012 by SAGE Publications |
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Faculty of Health; School of Nursing; School of Public Health & Social Work |
Palavras-Chave | #110000 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES #160000 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY #ethnography #refugee mental health #person-environment #everyday life #resilience #single refugee women |
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Journal Article |