Food Insecurity Among Haitian Migrants Living In Brazil.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the situation of food insecurity among Haitians living in Midwest of Brazil, based on questions of the Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity (BSFI). METHODS: A survey was carried out with a probabilistic sampling proportional to sex of Haitians aged over 18 years who lived in Cuiabá and Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso. Haitian migrants were interviewed by bilingual (Haitian Creole/Portuguese) individuals, and for the analysis of the BSFI questions. Because the BSFI is not validated for Haitians, the first eight questions of the scale were assessed separately, according to sex, debts incurred for the migration project and time of residence in Brazil. Chi-square was calculated to test the differences between groups. RESULTS: A total of 404 Haitians were evaluated, 81.9% male individuals, 60.9% aged between 18 and 36 years. Among the respondents, 64.4% were worried about running out of food before having money to buy more food, and 62.6% answered that they ran out of food before having money to buy it. Higher proportions of positive answers were observed for women and those who reported having debts to finance the migration costs to Brazil. CONCLUSION: The high proportion of positive answers to the BSFS questions by Haitians seems to indicate a situation of social vulnerability and food insecurity, especially among Haitian women, as well as among those who had debts to migrate to Brazil and those who have lived in the country for more than a year.

Socioeconomic and Health Profile of Haitian Immigrants in a Brazilian Amazon State.

We analyzed the sociodemographic profile, migration journey, health conditions, and health care access and utilization among recent Haitian immigrants to the Brazilian Amazon state of Mato Grosso. We conducted a cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample of 452 Haitians. We administered a bilingual questionnaire from December 2014 to February 2015. Data were analyzed using chi square tests to evaluate differences among groups. The majority of participants were married men younger than 35 years old. They mostly came from the Haiti's Artibonite Department, living in Brazil for less than a year. Half of the participants were employed at the time of the interviews, and 81.8% relied exclusively on the Brazilian Unified Healthcare System for medical care. The overall health profile and health care access were good. Haitian migration to Brasil is a case of South-South migration driven by economic needs. Our population had good health status despite socioeconomic challenges.

Intervención en la relación sufrimiento-trabajo: contribuciones de la psicología social / Intervention in the suffering-work relationship: contributions from social psychology

La relación entre el sufrimiento y el trabajo es uno de los temas centrales en la actualidad, dada las condiciones de trabajo en la contemporaneidad. Así, este artículo trata el tema del sufrimiento relacionado con el trabajo, con el objetivo de presentar la perspectiva de la intervención de uno de los aspectos teóricos de la psicología social, vinculada al pensamiento de autores como Foucault, Deleuze y Guattari.

The relationship between suffering and work is one of the central issues today, given contemporary working conditions. Thus, this article deals with the subject of work-related suffering, with the aim of presenting the perspective of the intervention of one of the theoretical aspects of social psychology, linked to the thought of authors such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari.