@article{ref1,
title="Migration and health. A study of Latin American refugees, their exile in Sweden and repatriation",
journal="Scandinavian journal of primary health care",
year="1995",
author="Sundquist, J. and Iglesias, E. and Isacsson, A.",
volume="13",
number="2",
pages="135-140",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To analyse and elucidate the migration process in order to identify psycho-social themes which might act as stressors with influence on health. DESIGN: Qualitative in-depth interviews with eleven strategically selected Latin American refugees. SETTING: Latin American refugees living in Lund, a university town, and those who were repatriated to Santiago, Chile. PARTICIPANTS: 11 Latin Americans of whom 4 were repatriated to Chile. RESULTS: The migration process was divided into four courses of events: cultural background and everyday life; organized violence; the exile; the repatriation. &quot;Themes&quot; such as cultural and working identity and high control were extracted from the dialogues as central buffering factors against microbiological or physicochemical disease agents harboured by the individual. CONCLUSIONS: During the exile the cultural barrier, social degradation, guilt, social passivity, and ideological alienation cause a changed identity and low control which increase the vulnerability to psychological distress and physical disease.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0281-3432",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}