Danish Science Festival: Migration and Mental Health

How can we understand mental health of migrants not just as individual suffering, but shaped by inequalities, colonial legacies and social structures in the Global South? 

The Danish Development Research Network (DDRN) is looking into this during the Danish Day of Research, where they have invited three experts who deal with the issue:

Gabriel Antonio Brown

Assistant Prof. from Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, Centre for Culture and the Mind, University of Copenhagen, will talk about history, politics, and practices of psychiatry and global mental health, and their impact on subjectivity and everyday life in Latin America. Gabriel’s presentation is entitled: Migration and Mental health in Latin America: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives.

Ahlam Chemlali

PostDoc, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg Universitet, shifts the focus to North and West Africa and tells about her extensive ethnographic field work in Tunesia on everyday life in transit, exploring various forms of ‘border violence’ against migrants in their ‘room of transit’. Ahlam Chemlali is a team member in the research project ‘Women on the Move’, which investigates trafficking, violence, and women’s undocumented routes of migration to Europe.

Lise Josefsen Hermann

The moderator of the evening, journalist Lise Josefsen Hermann shares her experience interviewing migrants in Latin America for media publishing and education in Danish upper secondary schools.

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