2011, Number 2
Rev Elec Psic Izt 2011; 14 (2)
Hopeful imaginary signification present in the migration of workers to United States
Jacobo AML
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 383-403
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ABSTRACT
The worker’s migration to United States is a growing phenomenon, that doubtless shows the economic damage that our country suffers enduringly. The young people hasn’t job opportunities or receives poor wages, other times the migration has been established as a way of life, which lays out a single tradition that makes difficult withdraw from it. Men and women leave their communities and neighborhoods seeking for a better life. The workers migration to United States shapes several kinds of social practices which ask the social psychologists about the changes experimented by the subject, the family, the health and the social and community relationships. On this text we explore, from the field of the social psychology, the way that the workers overcome the risks implicated in the crossing of the north border, including the death. To endure these incidents, the migratory journey of the workers is endowed with a set of imaginary meanings that allows support the pain, the suffering, even the death. These meanings are subjective elaborations from imaginary nature, and encourage the building of collective cores of sense that let the exile changes from suffering into hope. Based on the theoretical proposal of C. Castoriadis about the imaginary and a qualitative methodology, we did twenty deep interviews to migrants and their families, along with short visits to seven communities of Guanajuato, a Mexican state with migratory tradition. These interviews were recorded and transcribed, and we wrote a text with a proposal and an interpretation that highlights the strength of the imaginary in the configuration of a narrative that tells the migration from its protagonists.REFERENCES