Abstract

FORNO, Cristiano Dal; CANABARRO, Rita de Cássia dos Santos  and  MACEDO, Mônica Medeiros Kother. Work as Subjective Potentiality in the Migratory Experience. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.1, pp. 309-329. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2020.50836.

The search for professional work opportunities which allow the subjects better living conditions is directly related to international migration. Professional work seems to be a resource which enhances psychic health by promoting the experience of recognition of the migrant's skills, with effects on their subjectivity. Through the method of psychoanalytic research, this article examines the role of professional work in relation to the impasses of migratory experience. The risks to the social pathologization of migration tendencies are discussed and the relationship between migration and the creative potential of labor practice is approached. A Haitian migrant was interviewed and the book entitled "Sonhos que mobilizam o imigrante haitiano: biografia de Renel Simon" (Dreams that mobilize the Haitian immigrant: A biography of Renel Simon) was also selected as a research material. In a statement constituted from the analysis of these narratives, the individual way of how each one of these subjects has faced challenges along the migration process has been explained. The article concludes that professional work responds to the identity dimension, assessing value of one-self, as it allows the subject in its social insertion and intersubjective experiences of recognition for the activities performed.

Keywords : migration; Haitian diaspora; subjectivity; psychoanalysis; work.

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