Revue Medicale Suisse
Volume 8, Issue 345, 2012, Pages 1279-1281

Adolescence and migration: An age of interbreeding [Adolescence en migration, un métis-âge] (Short Survey)

Conne P.*
  • a Psychologue-psychothérapeute FSP, Appartenances, Rue des Terreaux 10, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

The migrant adolescent can be looked at as a «hybrid, mixed race individual, who has to be cared for taking into account his migration journey. As a developing person, who is entangled between filiation, affiliation and migration, he needs to be approached as a cosmopolitan individual struggling with the construction of his identity and a sense of multiple belongings. This is why any health care provider must comprehend such situations within a complex network of stakeholders working in a non exclusive way, so to propose to the adolescent a complementary care which will enable him to find his own way in the world, even if he has not received parental support, such as in the case of non accompanied minors.

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Index Keywords

Short Survey Communication Barriers Adolescent Psychology Social Identification human breeding social support Humans Adolescent Acculturation adolescence Hybridization, Genetic race interbreeding Adolescent Behavior migration Age Factors child health care Emigration and Immigration parent

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ISSN: 16609379
Original Language: French