Cultural Anxieties – Managing Migrant Suffering in France Larchanche Hardback

Cultural AnxietiesManaging Migrant Suffering in France\nAuthor(s): Stphanie Larchanche\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813595382, 978-0813595382\nSynopsis\nCultural Anxieties is a gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist Stphanie Larchanch explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants. In particular, she documents how restrictive immigration policies, limited resources, and social anxieties about the \""other\"" combine to constrain the work of state social and health service providers who refer migrants to the clinic and who tend to frame \""migrant suffering\"" as a problem of integration that requires cultural expertise to address. In this context, Larchanch describes how staff members at Minkowska struggle to promote cultural compet.