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Identidades em crise: imigrantes, emoções e saúde mental em Portugal

Chiara Pussetti
- 01 Mar 2010 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 1, pp 94-113
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The authors discute criticamente o caracter da experiencia migratoria enquanto factor de risco e patologia psiquica, discute a leitura patologizante da experience of emigration, funda as suas conclusoes sobre o modelo de "seleccao negativa", isto e: seriam os sujeitos fracos, pouco integrados na sociedade de origem, com escassas ligacoes afectivas e estrutura familiar insta
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Este artigo, baseado em 4 anos de pesquisa de terreno num servico de saude mental especifico para imigrantes em Portugal, discute criticamente o caracter da experiencia migratoria enquanto factor de risco e patologia psiquica. As condicoes particularmente duras da migracao contemporânea sao consideradas como propicias a um aumento exponencial de psicopatologias. A ideia de que a emigracao esteja indissoluvelmente ligada a formas especificas de sofrimento psicologico acabou para promover uma progressiva medicalizacao da experiencia migratoria. Esta leitura patologizante da experiencia migratoria funda as suas conclusoes sobre o modelo de "seleccao negativa", isto e: seriam os sujeitos fracos, pouco integrados na sociedade de origem, com escassas ligacoes afectivas e estrutura familiar instavel a optar pela emigracao, levando a que os seus disturbios latentes se manifestassem particularmente no pais de acolhimento. A representacao da vulnerabilidade psicologica como caracteristica intrinseca dos migrantes nao toma todavia em conta a relacao mais ampla entre sofrimento individual e experiencia de exclusao, marginalizacao social, discriminacao e precariedade das condicoes habitacionais e laborais, entre outros factores. O estereotipo do imigrante como pessoa fragil do ponto de vista mental, com um elevado risco de desenvolvimento de patologias psiquiatricas, permite transformar os problemas sociais, economicos e politicos de grupos desfavorecidos em elementos potencialmente patologicos que podem ser controlados e monitorizados farmacologicamente.

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‘Woundscapes’: suffering, creativity and bare life – practices and processes of an ethnography-based art exhibition

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