Pensee Plurielle
Volume 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 51-60

Affective, cognitive and social suffering of the parents in exile [Souffrances affectives, cognitives et sociales des parents en exil] (Article)

Pourtois J.-P.* , Demonty B. , Jouret D.
  • a UNISOL/Fonds Houtman, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation, 18, Place du Parc, BE-7000 Mons, Belgium
  • b UNISOL/Fonds Houtman, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation, 18, Place du Parc, BE-7000 Mons, Belgium
  • c UNISOL/Fonds Houtman, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation, 18, Place du Parc, BE-7000 Mons, Belgium

Abstract

Being parent within the context of immigration might be difficult for some parents who have difficulties to reconcile their desires, their aspirations and their parental project on the one hand with the obligations of the new society on the other end. The identity conflicts, mainly provoked by the system in which the parents live, may have repercussions on all the educative dimensions: the affective, cognitive and social dimension (Pourtois and Desmet, 2004). Considerable suffering orig~nates in the disaffiliation, the cognitive unavailability and the social disqualifica~tion. A specific social action - centred round the notions of reliance, instrumenta~lising and positive expectations - might help the parents to reduce those tensions.

Author Keywords

Filiation Affiliation Stimulation Cation Cognitive unavailability Identity Reinforcement Symbolical violence Disaffiliation Social disqualifi Reject cultural integration Recognition

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-67650149377&doi=10.3917%2fpp.008.0051&partnerID=40&md5=605f2a213f55ce94155734add49afdbb
DOI: 10.3917/pp.008.0051
ISSN: 13760963
Original Language: French