Psychospołeczne uwarunkowania zdrowia emigrantów i ich rodzin w świetle własnych badań jakościowych
Psychosocial factors influencing the health of migrants and their families

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the analysis of psychosocial factors influencing migrant workers’ health. The analysis is divided into three parts. The first, theoretical, depicts modern work migration with the emphasis put on circular migration, and characteristic features of people who are its part. There is, as well, some theoretical background of my own research, which are three theories: theory of the social capital of migration (the most important), push and pull theories, and the theory of new economics of labour migration. The second part is devoted to a study of health from the sociopsychological perspective and the possibilities and restrictions of reasoning about the influence of social factors on susceptibility to various illnesses while on migration. There is also a list of discussed phenomena in this part. I concentrated mainly on the following factors: trauma of social change, social marginalization, malfunction in a family, stress, the feeling of rootlessness and the symptoms of social anomie. The last part includes the results of own qualitative research conducted among migrants in 2010 and 2011 in the summary I point at directions of further research on the discussed issues.

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