Banca de DEFESA: Marcos André Silva da Luz

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Marcos André Silva da Luz
DATE: 29/09/2022
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/qrd-qiid-waw
TITLE:

The migratory process of brazilians: between cultural alterity and mental health

KEY WORDS:

immigration, identity, mental health, culture shock, acculturation stress.

PAGES: 70
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

The brazilian migratory phenomenon is a scenario that involves thousands of individuals
facing the journey of entering other countries and adapting to new ways of being and living in
the world. The migratory process involves several questions about worldviews, sociocultural
codes and even elements of the immigrant's mental health. This research was carried out from
three manuscripts. The first investigation is a systematic review about the state of the art used
in mental health indicators related to brazilian immigrants, to which anxiety and depression
stood out as the most recurrent and indicating how this portion of the population faces
adaptation scenarios that are fertile for the development of psychological stress. The second
manuscript deals with the relationship between cultural shock and the mental health of
immigrant brazilians, based on data found in interviews with 15 subjects living in eight
different countries. The following narrative axes were analyzed in the interviews: i) social
codes; ii) language; iii) grief processes and iv) mental health. As a result, it is pointed out the
difficulties faced by brazilians in their acculturation process, which is necessary for the
integration of subjects into the target communities. Among brazilians, the feeling of cultural
shock with their own culture of origin was also discussed when asked about the desire to
return and how there is a feeling of displacement in relation to their countrymen. The third
manuscript is also an investigation produced from 15 interviews as well, and deals with the
relationship between migrating and the reconstruction of their identity as brazilian migrants.
The following narrative axes were analyzed: i) identity alterity, ii) identity of non-belonging;
iii) split identity and iv) hybrid/dialectical identity. It was observed that the notion of identity
is transformed from the experiences in the destination countries, being remarkable the notion
of identity described among the interviewed as a phenomenon of biculturalism as a result of a
dialectic development on the cultural systems accessed by them. The conclusions that can be
pointed out in the individual and collective analysis of the studies carried out point to the
issues of brazilian immigration associated with adaptation processes that are permeated by
phenomenon of social integration, which are intrinsically correlated to the development of the
subject’s cultural identity as this movement is also marked by vulnerability and may end up
producing effects on the participants' mental health.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - Antonio Carlos Nunes de Carvalho Junior - SESDF
Presidente - 1734473 - DEISE MATOS DO AMPARO
Externa ao Programa - 1122891 - REGINA LUCIA SUCUPIRA PEDROZA
Interna - 1839720 - VALESKA MARIA ZANELLO DE LOYOLA