Suffering: “a universal aspect of human experience in which individuals and groups have to undergo or bear certain burdens, troubles, and serious wounds to the body and the spirit that can be grouped into various forms,” (Arthur and Joan Kleinman 1991). People from all over the world go through similar traumas. As we discussed in class, these can be in the form of physical and emotional pain, injury, and hurt, as well as social, economic, political, and institutional violence. These forces affect the human experience harshly.
In Fassin and d’Halluin’s, “Critical Evidence: The Politics of Trauma in French Asylum Policies,” the authors discuss the difficulties and consequences experienced by French and other European asylum seekers. Many of these …show more content…
Within the last 30 years, France has experienced a rapid decline in the legitimacy of asylum which has led to a “guaranteed ‘right’ of protection by their host country.” This was established at the Geneva Convention of 1951 stating that it was a “charitable ‘obligation’ only dependent on the good will of each state” (Simmel 2001). This has changed the structure of which asylum seekers have been seeking for assistance. They have gained access to national policies in which many of offered resistance and mobility for people such as undocumented immigrants. However, this did not come easy. “A series of struggles took place to obtain free medical assistance for undocumented migrants, give residence permits to those suffering from serious illnesses, and take into consideration the psychological sequels of exile,” (Fassin and Rechtman 2005). Many psychologists, knowledgeable and professional, have been known to play a great role in order to resolve these political and ethical conflicts which have been a problem for these victims. The decline in legitimacy of asylum has led to increasing expectations for evidence to establish the reality of persecutions. State institutions should increase specialization on victims of torture and …show more content…
Body and mind are central to these evaluations because these victims experience both physical scars left by torture and a deep psychological scar. By recogonizing where these problems stem from, people are able to identify victims more conveniently. By comparing the previous article with “Social suffering and the culture of compassion in a morally divided China,” written by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearcea , Arthur Kleinmanb & Emily Harrison, it becomes evident that this is not only a problem in France. These authors illuminate the complexity of mobility in a moral sea of changing values. Even as modernity facilitates movement of people away from suffering, the grinding of entangled moral experiences within the mobile group can be the cause of
In Fassin and d’Halluin’s, “Critical Evidence: The Politics of Trauma in French Asylum Policies,” the authors discuss the difficulties and consequences experienced by French and other European asylum seekers. Many of these …show more content…
Within the last 30 years, France has experienced a rapid decline in the legitimacy of asylum which has led to a “guaranteed ‘right’ of protection by their host country.” This was established at the Geneva Convention of 1951 stating that it was a “charitable ‘obligation’ only dependent on the good will of each state” (Simmel 2001). This has changed the structure of which asylum seekers have been seeking for assistance. They have gained access to national policies in which many of offered resistance and mobility for people such as undocumented immigrants. However, this did not come easy. “A series of struggles took place to obtain free medical assistance for undocumented migrants, give residence permits to those suffering from serious illnesses, and take into consideration the psychological sequels of exile,” (Fassin and Rechtman 2005). Many psychologists, knowledgeable and professional, have been known to play a great role in order to resolve these political and ethical conflicts which have been a problem for these victims. The decline in legitimacy of asylum has led to increasing expectations for evidence to establish the reality of persecutions. State institutions should increase specialization on victims of torture and …show more content…
Body and mind are central to these evaluations because these victims experience both physical scars left by torture and a deep psychological scar. By recogonizing where these problems stem from, people are able to identify victims more conveniently. By comparing the previous article with “Social suffering and the culture of compassion in a morally divided China,” written by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearcea , Arthur Kleinmanb & Emily Harrison, it becomes evident that this is not only a problem in France. These authors illuminate the complexity of mobility in a moral sea of changing values. Even as modernity facilitates movement of people away from suffering, the grinding of entangled moral experiences within the mobile group can be the cause of