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Migration and exile - some implications for mental health in post-apartheid South Africa
Submitted: 04 March 2008 | Published: 01 September 2006
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M C Marchetti-Mercer, Department of Psychology, University of Pretoria, South AfricaJ L Roos, Department of Psychiatry, Weskoppies Hospital, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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The age of globalisation and the socio-political changes that have taken place in South Africa in the past decade have created powerful contexts within which the issues of belonging and finding a ‘home’ have become very relevant to all South Africans.
This article explores the phenomena of migration and exile, which are strongly characterised by an attempt to find a place one can call ‘home’ and where one can belong, and then shows how these experiences can provide a useful framework for understanding a multicultural context such as the one in South Africa.
Some of the implications of these phenomena for mental health, specifically the link between schizophrenia and migration, will also be discussed.
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