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AFT conference 2018 Migration as intergenerational emotional homelessness: a personal story Paper published on Human Systems: The Journal of Therapy, Consultation and Training Volume No 27, Issue 3, 2016: 289-294 Available @


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Chiara Santin

Systemic and family therapist Supervisor and trainer

Migration as intergenerational emotional homelessness: a personal story

Paper published on Human Systems: The Journal of Therapy, Consultation and Training Volume No 27, Issue 3, 2016: 289-294 Available @ www.familytherapyservicesrainbow.org

AFT conference 2018

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Warming the context

The aftermath of brexit vote The refugees problem A humanitarian disaster Dismantling the jungle - a socio-political shame https://www.youtube.com/watch? time_continue=10&v=3hPS4_LAO fI

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“Your mother is here tonight, Marwan, with us, on this cold moonlight beach, among crying babies and the women worrying in tongue we don’t speak. Afghans and Somalis and Iraquis and Eritrean and

  • Syrians. All of us impatient for

sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home.” Khaled Hosseini, 2018

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My personal story: home and homelessness One of many possible stories….

I “am” complex. I am a dream. I am an ecology of selves We were fed with an illusion that we could choose a singular identity. Nora Bateson (2016:28)

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Intergenerational Family Stories

“Communication is two-sided process involving stories that we and others tell to make sense of the world” Pearce (2012:33)

Cultural meanings

“In a universe of stories, we experience our

identities and those of others as collection of social constructions – assemblies of cultural meanings with myriad

  • rigins”.

Pare’ (1996:33)

Dreams

Connecting the threads

Migration Shame Homelessness

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The meaning of HOME

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Emotional Homelessness: Looking for a safe haven

From childhood to adulthood

Learning to live within and across different worlds

Confused Lonely Wobbly Lost Edgy

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Home is where the heart is?

Home making Places People Home sweet home? Order out

  • f chaos

Making new & caring for old Boundary making & breaking

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Home Making

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Home dreaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fJbqsBALucA