Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South Africa
The age of globalisation and the socio-political changes that have taken place in South Africa in the past decade have created powerful contexts within which the issues of belonging and finding a ‘home’ have become very relevant to all South Africans. This article explores the phenomena of migratio...
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| Series: | South African Journal of Psychiatry |
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| description | The age of globalisation and the socio-political changes that have taken place in South Africa in the past decade have created powerful contexts within which the issues of belonging and finding a ‘home’ have become very relevant to all South Africans.
This article explores the phenomena of migration and exile, which are strongly characterised by an attempt to find a place one can call ‘home’ and where one can belong, and then shows how these experiences can provide a useful framework for understanding a multicultural context such as the one in South Africa.
Some of the implications of these phenomena for mental health, specifically the link between schizophrenia and migration, will also be discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-377da1a7110a443387029d4d2985068a2022-12-22T01:55:00ZengAOSISSouth African Journal of Psychiatry1608-96852078-67862006-09-0112310.4102/sajpsychiatry.v12i3.67235Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South AfricaM C Marchetti-Mercer0J L Roos1Department of Psychology, University of PretoriaDepartment of Psychiatry, Weskoppies Hospital, University of PretoriaThe age of globalisation and the socio-political changes that have taken place in South Africa in the past decade have created powerful contexts within which the issues of belonging and finding a ‘home’ have become very relevant to all South Africans. This article explores the phenomena of migration and exile, which are strongly characterised by an attempt to find a place one can call ‘home’ and where one can belong, and then shows how these experiences can provide a useful framework for understanding a multicultural context such as the one in South Africa. Some of the implications of these phenomena for mental health, specifically the link between schizophrenia and migration, will also be discussed.http://www.sajp.org.za/index.php/sajp/article/view/67 |
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| title | Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full | Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_short | Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South Africa |
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