The Ambiguous Grief of Adult Children of Refugees – Linda Thai

Description:

Leaving Vietnam at age two with my parents, as Vietnamese Boat People, has left a legacy on myself and my family that has taken my entire lifetime to make sense of.

This session draws upon research literature as well as narrative reconstruction of lived experiences to expand the conversation about intergenerational trauma to encompass the impact of forced migration, combined with acculturation and enculturation pressures upon the subsequent generation.

This larger landscape of traumatic grief, traumatic loss, traumatic homesickness and the ambiguity of these unnameable, unmetabolized experiences has transgenerational impact that needs to named in order to be healed.

Outline:
The difference between refugees and immigrants
Intergenerational trauma
Impact of forced migration combined with acculturation and enculturation pressures upon the next generation
Expressions of ambiguous grief, traumatic grief and traumatic homesickness
Differences between generation 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 refugees
Decontextualization of historical trauma resulting in the pathologizing and stereotyping of cultures, families and individuals
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