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Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration

  • Combines biological, psychological and sociological views
  • Explores facilities, cost issues, stigma and more
  • Covers measures of intervention that can help migrants maintain or restore their mental well being

Part of the book series: Mental Health and Illness Worldwide (MHIW)

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Table of contents (39 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction: Migration and Health

      • Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio, Driss Moussaoui, Rachel Tribe
      Pages 3-13
    3. Migration, Globalization, and Mental Health

      • Driss Moussaoui
      Pages 15-25
    4. Internal and International Migration and its Impact on the Mental Health of Migrants

      • Guglielmo Schininá, Thomas Eliyahu Zanghellini
      Pages 27-45
    5. Micro-identities and Acculturation in Migrants

      • Antonio Ventriglio, Dinesh Bhugra
      Pages 47-54
    6. Cultural Capital and Acculturation in Migrants

      • Dinesh Bhugra, Cameron Watson, Rajiv Wijesuriya, Antonio Ventriglio
      Pages 55-63
    7. Migrants, Racism, and Healthcare

      • Dinesh Bhugra, Cameron Watson, Elliot Clissold, Antonio Ventriglio
      Pages 65-73
  3. Special Groups

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. Mental Illness and Migrants in Europe

      • Rachid Bennegadi
      Pages 77-97
    3. The Mental Health of South Asians in the UK

      • Vishal Bhavsar, Antonio Ventriglio, Dinesh Bhugra
      Pages 121-133
    4. Mental Health in Multicultural Australia

      • Harry Minas
      Pages 135-164
    5. Canadian Immigrant Mental Health

      • Kenneth Fung, Jaswant Guzder
      Pages 187-207
    6. Transcultural Aspects of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Migrant Children and Adolescents

      • Rahmeth Radjack, Sarah Lévesque-Daniel, Marie Rose Moro
      Pages 209-226
    7. Migration, Aging, and Mental Health

      • Ee Heok Kua, Rathi Mahendran
      Pages 227-236
    8. Mental Health in Refugees and Asylum Seekers

      • Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Marianne C. Kastrup
      Pages 237-246
    9. The Untold Story of Mental Health and Resilience of Internal Migrants in India

      • Raghu Raghavan, Jonathan Coope, Brian Brown, Muthusamy Sivakami, Saba Jamwal, Tejasi Pendse
      Pages 247-259
    10. Mental Health of Irish Travellers

      • Finola Cullenbrooke, Susham Gupta
      Pages 261-269

About this book

This book unravels the mental health challenges of the migrants and the socio economic and cultural conditions that bear on the mental well being. In addition, it covers the measures of intervention that can help the migrants maintain or restore their mental well being. Research included in the book is timely given that there is ever increasing mobility of people which on one hand has led to better livelihoods, but on the other has created conditions of stress for the migrants and their families. As migrants are often found to be hesitant of using the health care facilities in the new place which may be due to the lack of awareness, this book elaborates on the health care facilities, cost issues, stigma, and several other factors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychiatry, Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco

    Driss Moussaoui

  • Centre for Affective Disorders, IoPPN, Kings College, London, UK

    Dinesh Bhugra

  • School of Psychology, University of East London and Centre for Psychiatry, within the Wolfson Institute for Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Rachel Tribe

  • Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

    Antonio Ventriglio

About the editors

Professor Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King’s College, London. He was Dean (Lead Educational Officer) of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2003-2008) and then President of the Royal College (2008-2011). He was Vice-Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges with remit for education for doctors of all grades and specialities. During this period he led on College’s campaign for Fair Deal for people with mental illness. He established strategy for public mental health. As President of the World Psychiatric Association he led on development of 20 Position statements and various other initiatives including Bill of Rights for people with mental illness (signed by 60 organisations) and a campaign for social justice for people with mental illness to support this. As President of the BMA (2018-2019) he led on a large survey of mental health and well-being of medical students globally, a campaign for equity between physical and mental health and Medicine’s social contract. So far, he is the only British Asian for having been President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the World Psychiatric Association. He chaired the Board of Trustees of Mental Health Foundation (2011-2014) and is on the Boards of Psychiatry Research Trust and Sane charities. He is currently Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. In 2017 he was placed #1 in public sector professionals in FT-Outstanding Awards. In 2018, he was voted international Global Champion on mental health in an international poll.  He has published widely with over 500 papers, 175 chapters, edited and written 37 books three of which have been translated into Japanese and Chinese and two have won awards. In 2019 two of his books were shortlisted in the BMA psychiatry book of the year award. Appointed CBE, he has been awarded 10 honorary degrees from international universities. He continues to champion the cause of people with mental illness.

Driss Moussaoui was the founder and chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca from 1979 to 2013. He was also director of the Casablanca WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health from 1992 to 2013.

He was president of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry and of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists. He edited or co-edited 10 books and published more than 150 papers in international journals.

He founded with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Executive Committee the Jean Delay Prize (1999) and is the scientific director of the WPA series "International Anthologies of Classic Psychiatric Texts" (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Russian is in preparation).

Driss Moussaoui is past-president of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP, 2010-2013) and member of the French Academy of Medicine. He is World Psychiatric Association and WASP Honorary Member.

He is currently president of the International Federation for Psychotherapy (2018-2022)

Antonio V. Ventriglio Based in Foggia, Italy, Dr. Ventriglio is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist at “Riuniti” Hospital in Foggia, Italy. He is professor of psychopharmacology and social psychiatry at the School of Psychiatry in Foggia, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia. He has been research fellow in the Department of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; completed two Ph.D. programs on medical, clinical, and experimental sciences at the University of Foggia. He is currently member of the Italian Society of Psychiatry, Italian Society for Social Psychiatry, and honorary member of World Psychiatry Association. Dr. Ventriglio is editor for letters for the International Journal of Social Psychiatry; editorial board member of the International Review of Psychiatry, Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences, Current Drug Research Review, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Neurosciences; and editor of books for Oxford University Press and Springer Nature.

Professor Rachel Tribe is an active clinician, researcher, consultant and trainer .  She is a trustee of two international mental health charities.  Professor Tribe has published extensively in the area of migration and mental health. With colleagues she developed a mental health and wellbeing portal for refugees, asylum-seekers and health and social care professionals, https://www.uel.ac.uk/Schools/Psychology/Research/Refugee-Mental-Health-and-Wellbeing-Portal.  Her clinical interests focus on all aspects of trauma, culture and mental health, professional and ethical practice, working with interpreters and bicultural workers in mental health, migration and mental health, older adults, social justice and organisational development. She has consulted to and worked with a range of humanitarian organisations ina number of countries.  Her work has global reach and has had  an impact in a number of countries. 


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