Rethinking well‐being: from contexts to processes
International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
ISSN: 1747-9894
Article publication date: 20 October 2010
Abstract
The paper analyses four different perspectives on well‐being: the medical viewpoint and the hegemony of trauma, the cultural approach and the balance of social, spiritual and natural realms, the psycho‐social position and the scrutiny of the social environment, and multi‐levelled ecological models that integrate multiple layers. The paper advocates a shift away from analyses of localities/phases/contexts and well‐being towards those of processes, predicated on the separation of physical dis(re)‐locations from psychological dis(em)‐placements. When examining processes and negotiations with life events, of which displacement is one, well‐being is understood as a process of being ‘of’ rather than being ‘in’.
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Citation
Doná, G. (2010), "Rethinking well‐being: from contexts to processes", International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 3-14. https://doi.org/10.5042/ijmhsc.2010.0606
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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