The Semiology of Migration

José Antonio Garciandía Imaz, Isabella Garciandía Rozo

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Abstract

Introduction: The phenomenon of migration generates a series of experiences in the human being that are translated into emotions, feelings, adaptation processes, grief and psychopathological processes, and even pathological expressions, represented by clinical pictures of different kinds. Objective: The purpose of this article is to carry out a conceptual and clinical reflection on the semiology around the concept and experience of migration, in order to illustrate the complexity that it entails as a human phenomenon. Methods: A reduced narrative review, circumscribed and restricted to the semiological, psychopathological and clinical aspects of migration. Discussion: The separation, ruptures and losses that derive from migration do not go unnoticed by the individual. They are inscribed in his/her corporality as physiological injuries that affect his/her life and as symbolic injuries that affect his/her existence. Conclusions: Migration supposes a rupture of the totality of being. The context, the perception of others and relationships are cut off from the total unity that is the individual, as if he/she lost half of him/herself.

Translated title of the contributionSemiología de la Migración
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)251-264
Number of pages14
JournalRevista Colombiana de Psiquiatria
Volume52
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 01 Jul 2023

Keywords

  • Emotions
  • Migration
  • Migratory grief
  • Psycopathological processes

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