Chapter 2 Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future: Exploring Tamil Refugees’ Sense of Identity and Agency

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction. Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being 1
5. Chapter 1 Fantasy, Subjectivity and Vulnerability through the Story of a Woman Asylum Seeker in Italy 27
6. Chapter 2 Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future: Exploring Tamil Refugees’ Sense of Identity and Agency 46
7. Chapter 3 Narrating Mobile Belonging: A Dutch Story of Subjectivity in Transformation 68
8. Chapter 4 Well-Being and the Implication of Embodied Memory: From the Diary of a Migrant Woman 93
9. Chapter 5 Towards a ‘Re-envisioning of the Everyday’ in Refugee Studies 116
10. Chapter 6 Behind the Iron Fence: (Dis)placing Boundaries, Initiating Silences 139
11. Epilogue. A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility 152
12. Notes on Contributors 161
13. Index 163