Migrant women and gender-based violence: Focus group with operators

Troisi, Gina; Margherita, Giorgia; Caffieri, Alessia

doi:10.1080/10852352.2021.1918829

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“…Research with professionals working with migrants in Italy showed that operators embracing an idealized professional profile could be satisfied by their work as well as being unable to recognize physical and mental fatigue [78]. Moreover, in the field of forced migration, not only personal resources but also all relational and contextual variables such as the work climate, the surviving experience of resistance in intersubjective terms might assume an important role in preserving the professional quality of life of the operators [3,14,79]. In any case, the relationship between secondary traumatic stress and compassion satisfaction remains an interesting area which needs to be further explored.…”

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“…However, all these professionals share intertwined social and ethical challenges. These challenges concern promoting social justice, defending human rights, and taking care of the forced migrants' health, whilst trying to engage with human suffering deriving from the cumulative severe traumatic experiences lived by refugees and forced migrants [2][3][4][5].…”

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The Role of Emotion Regulation as a Potential Mediator between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction in Professionals Working in the Forced Migration Field

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Caffieri

Parola

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Background: Professionals working with refugees are vicariously exposed to complex traumatic experiences lived by forced migrants, which can lead to the risk of developing secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and a poor compassion satisfaction. The current study aimed to explore the effects of secondary traumatic stress on burnout and compassion satisfaction in 264 Italian professionals working with refugees and forced migrants. Moreover, it examined the mediating role of emotion regulation between secondary traumatic stress and both burnout and compassion satisfaction. Methods: A structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to test the hypothesis. Results: The results showed that increased levels of secondary traumatic stress were associated with an increase of burnout both directly and indirectly through the mediation of emotion regulation. Emotion regulation also totally mediated the relationship between secondary traumatic stress and compassion satisfaction. Conclusions: The results suggested that prevention or interventions programs targeting emotion regulation might be important to improve the professional quality of life of operators working with refugees and forced migrants.

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The Role of Emotion Regulation as a Potential Mediator between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction in Professionals Working in the Forced Migration Field

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“…However, gender-based violence is not only experienced during transit [ 73 , 74 ]. A recent study conducted with Venezuelan women living in shelters on the northwestern Brazilian border showed that offenders may be intimate partners, relatives, acquaintances, or members of the military and police forces and that most women living in such conditions reported having suffered violence.…”

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Perceptions of Health Needs among Venezuelan Women Crossing the Border in Northern Chile during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Carreño

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In parallel to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chile has experienced a significant influx of international migrants, many of whom are Venezuelan women who have entered the country through unauthorized crossing points. In this context, gender and migration intersect as the social determinants of health, leading to their experiencing a range of adverse events. This poses important challenges in terms of short- and long-term health outcomes, the social determinants of health, and access to healthcare. This study aims at describing Venezuelan women’s perceptions of their health needs as they migrate to Chile via an unauthorized crossing point, with a focus on adverse events throughout the migration cycle, self-reported health needs, and responses. A qualitative case study was carried out with 22 participants in the Antofagasta region of Chile, including Venezuelan migrant women, healthcare professionals, and social workers from the public healthcare system, stakeholders from non-governmental and international organizations, and local government officials. The semi-structured, individual interviews were analyzed thematically. The results show that Venezuelan women face a range of adverse events throughout the migration cycle. The perceived health needs that are reported are sometimes linked to these adverse events or existed prior to migration and were exacerbated throughout the migratory cycle. Addressing these physical and mental health needs is essential for short- and long-term individual and public health; however, despite substantial efforts to ameliorate the situation, persisting gaps in access to care are reported.

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“…In the experience of violence, the body ceases to exist as guarantor of the narcissistic identity and becomes an object‐testimony of the fragmentation of the Self (Margherita & Troisi, 2014). In the case of trafficked women, the shame, which always accompanies the experience of gender‐based violence (De Vincenzo & Troisi, 2018; Troisi, 2018; Troisi et al., 2021), also assumes the characteristics of a social injury which make the women “impure and dirty” and is accompanied by complex feelings of guilt and mechanisms of scission and negation, which contribute to the silence's increase. Beside the physical and psychological violence of rape and exploitation, economic violence, which takes advantage of the poverty and feeds the financial profits, gives shape to Nigerian trafficking as a “business issue”.…”

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The frame of Nigerian sex trafficking between internal and external usurpers: A qualitative research through the gaze of the female Nigerian cultural mediators

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Gallo

Cozzolino

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Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The present qualitative study, through a psychoanalytic and culturally sensitive lens, aims at shedding light on the representations of the Nigerian sexual trafficking phenomenon and on the peculiarities of the relationship with trafficked women, from the perspective of five Nigerian female cultural mediators who work in the field of anti-trafficking.A semi-structured interview was developed and analyzed according to the principles of the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis-IPA. On the background of a complex process of construction of borders between the Self and the Other, the findings show that the complexity of the cultural mediation work is higher with trafficked women due to the similarities in terms of gender, ethnic, and cultural identities. These similarities produce continuous oscillatory movements between identification/dis-identification, confusion/differentiation, and admiration/envy. Sexual trafficking emerges as a complex chain folded over itself made by a succession of internal and external usurpers, which mutually reinforces one another, worsening the mental health of

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Migrant women and gender-based violence: Focus group with operators

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

The Role of Emotion Regulation as a Potential Mediator between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction in Professionals Working in the Forced Migration Field

The Role of Emotion Regulation as a Potential Mediator between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction in Professionals Working in the Forced Migration Field

Perceptions of Health Needs among Venezuelan Women Crossing the Border in Northern Chile during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The frame of Nigerian sex trafficking between internal and external usurpers: A qualitative research through the gaze of the female Nigerian cultural mediators

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