Migration and Ulysses Syndrome: Being nobody in nobody’s land / Migración y Síndrome de Ulises: ser nadie en tierra de nadie

Abstract

We are facing the worst refuge crisis since World War II. This is a constant process, that will increase in the future and it is framed into the several migratory movements that we are living since decades not only because of war, but also due to climatic, political and economic reasons. This article tries to analyze the psychosocial risks that migrant people face in extreme situations focusing the analysis in Ulysses syndrome: The syndrome of migrant people with chronic and multiple stress. The results show the need of incorporating this analysis into the social and labor integration programs because the way we receive and protect migrant people will represent the difference between their integration and their maladjustment into the new society.

Keywords

• Migration
• Refuge
• Psychosocial risks
• Ulysses Syndrome
• Integration
• Maladjustment