Migration and Mental Health in Two Contemporary Memoirs.
J Med Humanit
; 2024 Jul 22.
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ABSTRACT
This article examines two autobiographical texts that address the relationship between migration and struggles with mental health Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's The Undocumented Americans (2021) and Dina Nayeri's The Ungrateful Refugee What Immigrants Never Tell You (2020). Both memoirs help bring mental health issues to light in situations of precarity, and the texts indicate that it is not just the experience of physical dislocation that may cause or exacerbate struggles with mental health, but the disconnect from other people, from citizenship, and the nation itself. Nayeri and Cornejo Villavicencio do not focus on narratives of recovery or healing but provide space for the experiences of other undocumented migrants trying to navigate the European asylum system or difficulties in obtaining American citizenship. The article argues that the two authors use their experiences of migration and mental illness for greater advocacy purposes with regard to human rights. The struggles with mental health present in the two memoirs intertwine with the treatment of undocumented migrants as described by the two authors, going beyond the personal experience of mental health, or illness, connecting it with migration practices and policies in the United States and Europe.
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J Med Humanit
Asunto de la revista:
ETICA
Año:
2024
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Finlandia
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Estados Unidos