Migrants and refugees have proved to be a challenge for modern society and certainly a challenge for group analysis as well. This challenge links migrants and refugees to the members of the lower social classes, who always seem to have been a very specific challenge for society as well as for psychoanalysis and group analysis. Against this background, the article explores the possibilities for understanding migrant identities, drawing attention to new theoretical perspectives beyond psychoanalysis and group analysis, and offering new ways of conceptualizing and understanding transcultural phenomena.

Migration Hybrid identity Transcultural experience 'Third space' 'Working class'

Review law refugee social class cultural factor psychoanalysis society group psychology migrant worker migration