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An Anthropological Hybrid: The Pragmatic Arrangement of Universalism and Culturalism in French Mental Health
Didier Fassin,Richard Rechtman +1 more
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In this article, from an anthropological point of view, the different paradigms that have prevailed over the last 50 years of mental health services for migrants and refugees in France are reviewed.Abstract:
As in most European countries, the mental health of immigrants in France has recently been the subject of scientific scrutiny. Since the end of World War II voluntary special mental health services for migrants and refugees have been created in France and especially in Paris, but none has been based on epidemiological data. Generally, this lack of objective data gave rise to the assumption that many immigrants might not be getting the type of services they required. The birth of a new type of service (e.g. for migrants, refugees, ethnic groups, trauma and torture victims) was a political reaction to what was, at the time, expressed as an essential unmet need regarding this very specific population. In this article we review, from an anthropological point of view, the different paradigms that have prevailed over the last 50 years.read more
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Critical Evidence: The Politics of Trauma in French Asylum Policies
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A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa
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L'invention française de la discrimination
TL;DR: A la fin des annees 1990, les pouvoirs publics et plus largement la societe francaise ont commence a reconnaitre l'existence de discriminations liees a l’origine and souvent qualifiees de ''raciales" as mentioned in this paper.