Being Through Doing: The Self-Immolation of an Asylum Seeker in Switzerland

In April 2016, Armin,1 an asylum seeker in a village of Switzerland, set himself alight in the public square of the town, one of a few cases reported across Europe. He performed the act following a denied request for asylum and was saved by bystanders. We present the results of two qualitative inter...

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Main Authors: Gail Womersley, Laure Kloetzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00110/full