Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Objective: the objective of this work is the analysis of the development of studies and research on migration from psychology in Latin America, seeking to identify the characteristics of the construction of this field and object of knowledge from the category of acculturation stress. Methodology: the analysis was privileged through a narrative review. A total of thirteen studies on this issue were found, which account for some approaches to the problematic relationship that has been defined for this work: stress due to acculturation and mental health of migrants, an aspect that in turn guided the eligibility criteria and exclusion for the selection of the articles that were analyzed. Results: the importance that the development of the concept of "acculturation" had for intercultural psychology, which describes the effects that migration has on individuals in their process of "adaptation" to a new society and its effects on mental health, is identified. , trying to explain it through the concept of stress due to acculturation, likewise, the development of this theme is identified mainly in migrants in high-income countries from little differentiated approaches that do not allow to notice the inclusion of new variables from the identity referents of certain minorities in the same way that there is a prevalence of quantitative studies without differential approaches Conclusions: an advance was found in the epistemological relationship between psychology and migrations from the approaches of acculturation stress in the framework of the new dynamisms of migrations in Latin America, however, it is still an issue and a marginal object of study, which allows us to conclude that the issue of mental health does not fall within the relevant issues when addressing academically, the migratory experience, in the same way, the use of the concept of acculturation that implies migrant's responsibility to adapt, even at the cost of losing their own identity references, without questioning the provisions of the host societies that facilitate or hinder this process. A path has already been traveled around the contributions of psychology to acculturation stress and the relationship between mental health and migration, however, there is still a debt in this field the objective of this work is the analysis of the development of studies and research on migration from psychology in Latin America, seeking to identify the characteristics of the construction of this field and object of knowledge from the category of acculturation stress. Methodology: the analysis was privileged through a narrative review. A total of thirteen studies on this issue were found, which account for some approaches to the problematic relationship that has been defined for this work: stress due to acculturation and mental health of migrants, an aspect that in turn guided the eligibility criteria and exclusion for the selection of the articles that were analyzed. Results: the importance that the development of the concept of "acculturation" had for intercultural psychology, which describes the effects that migration has on individuals in their process of "adaptation" to a new society and its effects on mental health, is identified. , trying to explain it through the concept of stress due to acculturation, likewise, the development of this theme is identified mainly in migrants in high-income countries from little differentiated approaches that do not allow to notice the inclusion of new variables from the identity referents of certain minorities in the same way that there is a prevalence of quantitative studies without differential approaches Conclusions: an advance was found in the epistemological relationship between psychology and migrations from the approaches of acculturation stress in the framework of the new dynamisms of migrations in Latin America, however, it is still an issue and a marginal object of study, which allows us to conclude that the issue of mental health does not fall within the relevant issues when addressing academically, the migratory experience, in the same way, the use of the concept of acculturation that implies migrant's responsibility to adapt, even at the cost of losing their own identity references, without questioning the provisions of the host societies that facilitate or hinder this process. A path has already been traveled around the contributions of psychology to acculturation stress and the relationship between mental health and migration, however, there is still a debt in this field
Source: Ánfora
Institutions: University of Caldas, Universidad Católica de Pereira
Language: English
Topic: Migration, Health and Trauma
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412080229