SOCIAL WORK WITH NARRATIVES ORIENTED TOWARDS IMMIGRANT RESIGNIFICATION

This article takes as its reference axis studies linking migration, migratory mourning and the importance of technical narratives as a tool for the reconstruction of lived experience. This is a study that attempts to find out how to address the sense of loss experienced by migrants once they settle in the host country. Throughout years of working with young immigrants, we have observed that such feeling is present and is experienced differently by each of them. As technicians, it is our responsibility to be a support for each individual to perform their reworking of duel. We used a qualitative methodological strategy based on the biographical method of 'life story,' and generated a tool for gathering information based on in-depth interviews that focused on knowing the migration process and its current situation. The sample included individuals from different nationalities and with different ages, motivations and time spent out. These stories of life show that migration not only entails a number of benefits for the collective of immigrants, but also a series of 'losses' understood as an incomplete separation in time and space. These losses are known as migratory mourning. This study concludes that immigration is stressful event and therefore a risk factor for immigrants. It also proposes a model for intervention from Social Work that includes narrative techniques as a methodological strategy. Adapted from the source document.