Obligation, Failure, and the Promise of Migration

TY - CHAP

T1 - Obligation, Failure, and the Promise of Migration

AU - Schmeding, Annika

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - The chapter describes and analyses the impact of (failed) migration and return to Afghanistan, and its mental health impact. Through analysing relationships within the wider "community of support" in ethnographic research settings, the chapter offers insight into the spoken and muted obligations that researcher and researched as well as the wider social setting is expecting, reflecting on the uneven political ground on which such interactions unfold.

AB - The chapter describes and analyses the impact of (failed) migration and return to Afghanistan, and its mental health impact. Through analysing relationships within the wider "community of support" in ethnographic research settings, the chapter offers insight into the spoken and muted obligations that researcher and researched as well as the wider social setting is expecting, reflecting on the uneven political ground on which such interactions unfold.

KW - ethnography

KW - Afghanistan

KW - fieldresearch

KW - anthropology

KW - migration

KW - migration dynamics

KW - migration europe

KW - mental health

KW - suicide

KW - war economy

KW - dialogic writing

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85206796356&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85206796356

SN - 9781805397595

SP - 51

EP - 68

BT - Frontier Ethnographies

A2 - Choudhury, Nafay

A2 - Schmeding, Annika

PB - Berghahn Books Inc.

ER -