The paper reports the results of an interview carried out at the Medical center of Refugees and Asylum seeking in Bari-Palese (C.A.R.A.), to investigate the story of the trip of immigrants toward Italy, the subective experiences of coabitation with other guests, the future project and the health's state worries. The trip is described as an hard experience that 84% have faced alone. More than 60% of the listened people has been imprisoned in Lybia and has been victim of physical and/or sexual violence. 47% haven't some project for own future in Italy. Many requests of medical cares from the guests are not justified. As reported in literature, loneliness, physical and psychological traumas and absence of a future project are confirmed highly correlated factors to the condition of stress of acculturation and psychological disease that brings the guest of C.A.R.A. to develop hypocondriac symptoms and generally situations of psychological illness.

Refugees Immigration asylum seeking Acculturation risk factors

futurology immigrant risk factor stress Review Italy cultural factor sexual abuse physical disease mental disease correlation analysis human