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A Study of Exile and Returnee Families Through the Use of Genograms An Example of Methodological FlexibilityA

My voice is that of an insider, an academic and practitioner in times of transition, in one of the Eastern European countries. The report I convey speaks of what many of the international professionals, moving along the line of an illusionary continuum, left behind while focusing on new areas of dramatic need and concern. A good position of reconnecting to the state of things is by drawing attention to the fact that while the legal definitions of the exile situation rise hope that things can and are better in terms of a enhanced individual living of those in exile in Croatia, the level of observed problems concerning mental and health issues do not. Evenmoreso, there is such a deterioration in the lives of the majority of individuals that I myself can only start trying to understand, when reminded over and over again of the explanation one of my key informants provided me with when he stated that his world is one of the “lost worlds” for scientists and helpers. There are in fact many “lost worlds” our research and care can not cover. There are also those lost worlds that we create ourselves through our research, policies and practices. This paper is dedicated to starting a debate on ways in which we can avoid creating those “lost worlds”. If apprehending this context fully, the usage of the genogram method in exile circumstances was my own way of trying to do just that.

Medical anthropology; exile; health; genogram

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