MIRANDA, Suélen Cristina de. The study of migrations from Social Psychology: A critical perspective. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2019, 19, 3, pp.566-582. ISSN 1808-4281.

From the perspective of the so-called "Critical Social Psychology", this article is based on the syntagm identity-metamorphosis-emancipation, developed by Antônio da Costa Ciampa, to discuss the necessary denaturalization of the term migrant, whose unique experience will always be crossed by references of class, gender, race/ethnicity and nationality. The imperative of a shifting of the view of the migratory process itself to the migrant, who, as subject, attributes meanings and particular senses to the various conditions to which he is exposed from his stories and life projects. Considering this, the present work proposes an approach that overcomes the existing dichotomies between the micro and macro-structural perspectives, considering the singular perception of the migrant in relation to the historical, political, economic, social and cultural determinations involved in the place of origin and of destination. To do so, it was made a bibliographical review about the historical contributions of some important authors of the migratory theme, besides the differentiation between the main theories developed on this phenomenon, to understand the proposed approach and its relation with the migratory studies.

: migration; theories; Critical Social Psychology; identity.

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