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The Pieces of Diasporic History in My Immigrant Family: Deserted Island Loneliness and Connections of Societies / 離散家庭的歷史碎片:荒島的孤單與社會的連結

碩士 / 輔仁大學 / 心理學系 / 105 / I used to be a patient with mental illness. When I was in high school, I had suffered from emotional distress and thus chose to take the initiative in going to the psychiatric clinic for help. At that time, I also decided to aim at psychology department as top priority for college entrance and then carry out understanding of myself. I grew up in a family where my parents both came from other areas and had their own specific social contextual backgrounds different from Taiwan’s. My father is a veteran who was from Mainland China and follow KMT Government of Republic of China to come to Taiwan in 1949. My mother is a Chinese Indonesian who came to Taiwan to get married in the background of Chinese exclusion. As a second-generation immigrant, I have experienced various domestic quarrels in my family life which deeply influenced my own physical and mental state as well as career development. The study was written in self-narrative method, trying to review the problems and dilemmas that I encountered in different life stages in the experiences of education and immigrant / diasporic family, and to organize and reflect. In addition, in order to react to the situations of my family and expand my understanding of my parents' family of origin and myself, the study also records my various interventions and actions through different groups and fields, including searching for body and soul resources to support myself and my family, retrospecting to the histories of my parents and personally returning to Mainland China and Indonesia. Through these processes, I try to reframe the physical and mental states, relationship and personal development of mine and my family by broader societal / historical perspectives, and explore the possibilities of connections from the closed system of my family to the societies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/107FJU00071011
Date January 2017
CreatorsWu, Chia-Hung, 吳家弘
ContributorsHsia, Lin-Ching, 夏林清
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format163

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