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In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. Receiving the diagnosis typically led to a dramatic biographical disruption. This highly original book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for a fascinating analysis of Western subjectivity. Combining a host of empirical observations with the debate on the modern self, the author argues that the self-construction of people with HIV highlights the precarious yet indispensable status of the self in contemporary Western society. Constructing one's biography in terms of self-actualization is in fact a manifestation of nihilism: it evokes a standard of certainty which, on closer examination, cannot be sustained. Written in a lucid style, this unique book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, social theory and philosophy, as well as anybody interested in the relationship between the self and society or the experience of living with HIV/AIDS.

Sociology of health --- Infectious diseases. Communicable diseases --- Social psychology --- HIV-positive persons --- AIDS (Disease) --- Mental health --- Social aspects --- Self. --- Social aspects. --- Mental health. --- Self --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- HIV-infected persons --- HIV infections --- HIV patients --- HIV-sero-positive persons --- HIV-seropositive persons --- People living with HIV/AIDS --- Positive persons, HIV --- -Sero-positive persons, HIV --- -Seropositive persons, HIV --- -Patients --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Patients --- Ethics. --- Sociology. --- Philosophy. --- Sociology, general. --- Philosophy, general. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- HIV-positive persons - Mental health --- AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

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This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and methodological expertise, the book addresses a range of crucial issues related to both researcher-designed data collections and the secondary use of “big data”, highlighting opportunities as well as challenges and limitations. A valuable source for students and scholars engaged in migration research, the book will also be of keen interest to policymakers.

Quantitative migration research --- Available administrative sources --- Forced migrants in the global North and South --- General population surveys --- Reliable quantitative information --- Migratory flows and populations --- Sampling and data collection --- Intercultural differences --- Survey design issues --- Absence of suitable sampling frames --- Target population --- Migration research --- Internally displaced persons --- Social networking sites --- Internet survey --- Data collection --- Transnational human mobility

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Immigrants --- Public opinion. --- Opinion publique --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalousie (Espagne) --- Ethnic relations --- Emigration and immigration --- Relations interethniques --- Emigration et immigration --- Ethnic relations. --- Emigration and immigration.