Danish Development Research Network (DDRN.dk) invites you for presentation of research and debate on:
How can we understand mental health of migrants not just as individual suffering, but shaped by inequalities, colonial legacies and social structures in the Global South?
Assistant Prof. Gabriel Antonio Brown from Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, Centre for Culture and the Mind, University of Copenhagen, will talk about history, politics, and practices of psychiatry and global mental health, and their impact on subjectivity and everyday life in Latin America. Gabriel’s presentation is entitled: Migration and Mental health in Latin America: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives.
PostDoc Ahlam Chemlali, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg Universitet, shifts the focus to North and West Africa and tells about her extensive ethnographic field work in Tunesia on everyday life in transit, exploring various forms of ‘border violence’ against migrants in their ‘room of transit’. Ahlam Chemlali is a team member in the research project ‘Women on the Move’, which investigates trafficking, violence, and women’s undocumented routes of migration to Europe.
The moderator of the evening, journalist Lise Josefsen Hermann shares her experience interviewing migrants in Latin America for media publishing and education in Danish upper secondary schools.
Time: Tuesday 21 April at 7.30pm-9.30pm
Venue: UNION, Nørre Allé 7, 2200 Cph.
Free admission
Registration: Send an e-mail to: info@ddrn.dk with your name.
DDRN.dk: https://ddrn.dk/20102/
DDRN on mental health, also read: https://ddrn.dk/6773/; https://ddrn.dk/12108/; https://ddrn.dk/11706/; https://ddrn.dk/6754/
https://ddrn.dk/20102/