Diversidades

Diversidades: Perspectivas multidisciplinarias
para el estudio de la interculturalidad y el desarrollo social
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ce of Immigrant Syndrome with Chronic Stress and Multiple (SIECM) or Ulysses
Syndrome (Achotegui, 2008). Given the need to document this condition the present
study which aims to analyze the presence of SIECM in 80 Central American
migrants whom were assisted in the Casa del Migrante in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
For that, an assessing scale with 54 items that measured 7 duels migration was designed:
(1) family and loved ones, (2) language, (3) culture, (4) land, (5) social status,
(6) contact with the group of belonging and (7) the risks to physical integrity. It concluded
that the incidence of symptoms in the migrants interviewed was a greater
or lesser extent depending on the risk factors that showed each of them, as it were:
the cultural and language changes, the feeling of loneliness by family separation
and loved ones, the feeling of hopelessness and fatigue, inability to comply with
the immigration project that has set the person, the difficulties to fully integrate into
society. These stressors are particularly sensitive to the multiplicity, intensity and
chronicity to the absence of sense of control, and the size and importance of the
social support network of the person.
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