Emigration implies a break, a detachment; it means abandoning, going away, leaving behind a protective shell, the homeland, and heading elsewhere. Elsewhere is a place far from the sounds, smells, sensations that constitute the first traces on which a psychic functioning code has been established. It means finding oneself halfway between two cultures, "plucking one's roots from the land of origin, looking for a way to transplant oneself into the new land, with the need not to renounce oneself, one's own identity" (Mazzetti, 1996). A phenomenon of this magnitude involves the crossing of certain psychic paths and also of possible manifestations of discomfort. The subjects who come to us are generally people who in their country have fought for a long time against a dictatorship, or against a political situation that deprived them of all freedom; who have seen comrades, family members disappear or have suffered injustice and violence themselves for having protested. What you are looking for is a place where your rights are respected, where your identity and autonomy are welcomed without prejudice. The aim of the seminar will be to analyze the traumatic consequences that a forced migration path produces on a subject and what are the possible intervention strategies to favor social integration.

  

 

The seminar will be held on Friday 12-06-2015, 15.00-18.00, at the headquarters of'IREP., Via Piave, 7 Rome.
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