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Edda Heyken is a Doctoral Researcher working in the anthropological-psychiatric project “Affective Efforts of Migration: South and North Vietnamese Lifeworlds in Separated and Reunified Berlin” at the in the CRC “Affective Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin. In her doctoral thesis, she addresses the question of how affects influence memory-making processes as well as non-/belonging in the lives of elderly South Vietnamese refugees in Berlin. Her research interests encompass memory and silence from a psychological anthropological perspective.