A psychological approach to migration
Emigration implies a fracture, a detachment. Emigrating also means abandoning, leaving, leaving a protective covering, the homeland, and going elsewhere. The 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 yourself halfway between two cultures, "snatching one's roots from the land of origin, looking for a way to transplant into the new land, with the need not to give up on oneself, one's identity" (Mazzetti, 1996).