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Documenting Impossible Realities
2023
Overview
Documenting Impossible Realitie
s explores the limitations of conventional accounts through
which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of
adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic
populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson
speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy
between an \"above ground\" inhabited by dominant groups and an
\"underground\" to which unauthorized immigrants, political exiles,
and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This
dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not
belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways
of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such
illusions, Coutin and Yngvesson focus on the spaces
between groups, where difference is constituted and where
the potential for new forms of relationship may be realized. By
juxtaposing and moving between entangled realities and modes of
expression, Documenting Impossible Realities conveys the
emotional experience of oscillating between being here and gone,
legitimate and treated as counterfeit.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Belonging (Social psychology)
/ belonging and transnational adoption
/ Cultural
/ Documentation challenges experienced by immigrants and the adopted
/ ethnography of documentations
/ Identity (Psychology)-Social aspects
/ LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STUDIES
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
ISBN
1501768824, 9781501768828, 9781501768873, 1501768875, 9781501768866, 1501768867, 9781501768880, 1501768883
