Capital social, santé mentale et immigration

Mental Health and Service Use of Migrants in Contact with the Public Psychiatry System in Paris

“…In this sense, the quite explanatory model of migrants’ mental health problems developed by the ethnopsychiatry approach [ 53 ], which underscores the impact of culture with regard to the causes and treatment of ill mental health, in spite of the importance of the psychosocial environment [ 26 , 54 ], needs to be reconsidered. This may contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the different risk factors related to the migratory experience and therefore a rethinking of the organization and access to effective care [ 55 , 56 ].…”

“…Moreover, there is a need to promote accessible interventions aiming to manage stress [ 66 ] and to support the attainment of social resources, such as language skills and social networks, which also contribute to reducing psychosocial distress and enhancing resilience [ 56 , 67 ]. For instance, counselling by peers supervised by mental health professionals has been successfully applied in places where access to mental health is limited and is being investigated in Europe, because it is cost-effective and culturally adapted [ 68 , 69 ].…”

Culturally Informed Manifestations of Trauma

“…The importance of religiously-or spiritually-informed meaning making to inform healing from traumatic events has similarly been highlighted among Sudanese refugees in Australia (Copping et al, 2010), Filipino, Sao Tomean and Indo-Mozambican migrant mothers settled in Portugal (Trovão et al, 2017), and sub-Saharan refugees in Canada-where nearly half of participants privileged prayer as the best treatment for mental health challenges (Langevin et al, 2017). These studies highlight the role of religion in providing cultural resources aimed at transforming the trauma narrative-as well as the importance of religious networks as generating "social capital" (Tortelli et al, 2017) and opportunities for social mobility and activism.…”

Trauma and Migration

“…As refugees struggle to maintain cultural identities and networks (Watters, 2001), such isolation brings the further risk of losing the "social capital" (Lecerof et al, 2015;Loizos, 2002;Tortelli et al, 2017) inherent to resources associated with economic status as well as social and professional identity. The loss of social capital, exacerbated by social discrimination and marginalization, has similarly been linked to poorer mental health outcomes (Brand et al, 2017).…”