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Homesickness and migrants workers: reflections about the mental health

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  • Marina Batista Chaves Azevedo de Souza Universidad Federal de Paraíba
  • Barbara Iansâ de Lima Barroso Universidad Federal de Paraíba
Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2017.46384

Abstract

Feelings of longing emerged in the interviews, and the article aims to characterize them in the audience context, enabling reflections about possible relations with the experience of bereavement or transient loss; aspects that besides similar to the feelings of absence and directly linked to migrants everyday can be influencers of mental health. The study is descriptive, using a qualitative and quantitative approach, analyzed from the content analysis method, based on an interpretative paradigm. It was found that the longing and grief, are recurrent for workers. Could not say that in the context of respondents, the presence of this feeling is developing to deep / melancholy sadness situations. However, a more conscious assimilation of that feeling along to aid the integration of workersin socialization devices available, would contribute to better incorporation of individuals to local culture and reduction of possible long-term damage.

Keywords:

Migration, worker health, longing, occupational therapy

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Chaves Azevedo de Souza, M. B., & de Lima Barroso, B. I. (2017). Homesickness and migrants workers: reflections about the mental health. Revista Chilena De Terapia Ocupacional, 17(1), 115–123. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2017.46384
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Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile
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