Experiencias del desasosiego: salud mental y malestar en Chile

Morales, Roberto Aceituno; Hiriart, Gonzalo Miranda; Molina, Álvaro Jiménez

doi:10.5354/0365-7779.2012.21730

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“…These policies and plans have provided Chilean society with a psychiatric and neurological language to speak about afflictions, suffering, and well-being in a postdictatorial context marked by an accelerated modernization process, the development of a liberal market economy, and an increase in socioeconomic inequalities (Aceituno et al 2012 ). In other words, mental health institutions, actors, and practices have provided people with language compatible with ideals of responsibility and meritocracy, as well as with the privatization of suffering and loneliness (Han 2012 ).…”

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Becoming a (Neuro)migrant: Haitian Migration, Translation and Subjectivation in Santiago, Chile

Abarca-Brown

2024

Medical Anthropology

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Based on a multi-sited ethnography conducted over 14 months in northern Santiago, I examine how the introduction of a series of health policies and the global mental health agenda has interacted with and impacted Haitian migrants in the context of a postdictatorship neoliberal Chile (1990–2019). Specifically, I explore the interactions between health and social institutions, mental health practitioners, psy technologies, and Haitian migrants, highlighting migrants’ subjectivation processes and everyday life. I argue that Haitian migrants engage with heterogeneous subjectivation processes in their interactions with health and social institutions, challenging normative values of integration into Chilean society. These processes are marked not only by the presence of, or exposure to, psy interventions and mental health discourses but also by the degree of compatibility between a psychiatric and neurological language and Haitians’ ideals and moral frameworks.

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Section: Psychiatric and Neurological Language Translation And Cultur...mentioning

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Becoming a (Neuro)migrant: Haitian Migration, Translation and Subjectivation in Santiago, Chile

Abarca-Brown

2024

Medical Anthropology

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Experiencias del desasosiego: salud mental y malestar en Chile

Cited by 1 publication

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Becoming a (Neuro)migrant: Haitian Migration, Translation and Subjectivation in Santiago, Chile

Becoming a (Neuro)migrant: Haitian Migration, Translation and Subjectivation in Santiago, Chile

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