Psychology of Forced Displacement and Migration: A systematic review of the scientific literature

SILVA, Jonas CARVALHO e; BUCHER-MALUSCHKE, Júlia Sursis Nobre Ferro

doi:10.1590/1982-02752018000200002

THEMATIC SECTION: MIGRATION AND REFUGE • Estud. psicol. 35 (2) • Apr-Jun 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02752018000200002 linkcopy

Psychology of Forced Displacement and Migration: A systematic review of the scientific literature

Psicologia dos Deslocamentos e Migração Forçada: uma revisão sistemática da literatura científica

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Forced displacement is a research field in specific social and cultural contexts. This systematic review aims to identify, describe and analyze the research in Psychology of Forced Displacement and Migration published between 2006 and 2016. The databases selected were PsycINFO, Lilacs and SciELO following the criteria of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, 2009. Content and methodology were assessed by Critical Appraisal Skill Programme. A total of 34 out of 491 articles fulfilled the eligibility criteria and were categorized in a framework that summarizes the main research questions and methodologies, including authors, research questions, units of analysis, dominant theories, and hypotheses. In conclusion, the framework helped to comprehend the general aspects of the existing research and pointed out interdisciplinary tendencies in the studies on this phenomenon.

Keywords
Forced displacement; Migration; Psychology; Review

Authors	Question	Units of analysis	Dominant theories	Hipotheses of the samples
Denov and Blanchet-Cohen (2016)	How can experiences in times of war be subjective?	Individuals	Behavioral theories	Power relations at structural, organizational and individual levels.
Power (2016)	What is migration?	Groups	Cultural studies	It is a legitimized, historical-cultural response to suffering.
Vargas and Toro (2016)	What contributes to the education of the displaced person?	Teachers, parentes and students	Human rights	The process of continuous training of teachers.
Sezgin (2016); Valdez et al. (2013)	Why do unauthorized people remain in the community?	Ethnic groups	Migration theories	Family, community and interrelated sociopolitical factors.
Ferreira (2015)	What stimulates psychosis?	Individual	Psychoanalysis	Segregation from social life.
Avendano-Villa et al. (2015)	Which technology helps academic performance?	Teachers, parentes and students	Social construtivism	Prosocial behavior, Information Technology and Communication.
Indursky and Conte (2015)	What leads to catastrophic symptoms?	Family	Psychoanalysis	Exile.
Shoshani et al. (2015)	What is the school’s role for the acculturation of migrant adolescents?	Students	Cultural adaptation	Measure the relationships of school development with mental health and risk behaviors.
Sonn et al. (2015)	Which experiences influence identity?	Groups	Ethnic-racial theories	Cultural and psychological dimensions.
Blanco and Amarís (2014)	Who are the greatest victims of displacement?	Women	Feminist theories	Women.
Daure et al. (2014)	What is the consequence of migration for the family?	Families	Sistemic theory	The migratory event causes a certain imbalance in the family system.
Garcia et al. (2014)	How are the friendships of migrants?	Ethnic groups	Cultural adaptation	The friend is a guide and socializing agent in the new environment.
Tummala-Narra (2014)	How does cultural identity develop in victims of violence?	Individual	Psychoanalysis	They are dealt in complex ways in the context of interpersonal violence.
Dandy and Pe-Pua (2013)	What drives intergroup relations?	Ethnic groups	Ethnic-racial theories	They are complex with stress caused by threats and deprivations.
Brenick et al. (2012)	Who perceives discrimination better?	Ethnic groups	Ethnic-racial theories	Groups with greater in-group orientation.
Mähönen and Jasinskaja-Lahti (2012)	When does cultural identity develop?		Cultural studies	Post-migration period.
Tuason et al. (2012)	What are the experiences of people displaced by environmental disasters?	Groups	Critical theory	The impact of cultural differences on the survivor's "home” compared to the new place they inhabit.
Shi et al. (2012)	What is the ratio time in test results?	Students	Personality theories	Children with longer migration times perform better in thinking tests.
Salazar et al. (2011)	What influences reactive behaviors?		DSM	Psychopathological trends.
Neto (2010)	What contributes to mental health?	Adolescents	Cultural adaptation	Socio-cultural adaptation.
Harlem (2010)	What is a dissociative state in exile?	Individuals	Psychoanalysis	Gaps between the versions of dissociated self states from time, physical spaces and relationships.
Mosquera et al. (2010)	Which variables affect the quality of life of patients with PTSD?	Micro/ groups	DSM	Sex, marital status, employment status, education, occupation, time, type and cause of displacement, and self-perception.
Neto (2009)	Who has more mental health problems?	Adolescents	Cultural adaptation	Women.
Sacipa et al. (2007)	What is the psychosocial effect on adversity?	Groups	Human rights	Silence is a psychosocial effect of the victims of armed conflict.
Walsh and Shulman (2007)	What is the meaning of self?	Social status	Psychoanalysis	Experiencing the feelings of the mourning process.
Coutinho and Oliveira (2006)	Which are the implications of the bio-sociodemographic profile?	Ethnic groups	Cultural adaptation	The “systemic invisibility” of FDM compared to other types of migration.

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