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Nouns as Essential Migration Signifiers for Improving Migrant Mental Health Through Social Services Supporting Problem-Focused or Emotion-Focused Coping
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: Received: 29 September 2024 / Approved: 30 September 2024 / Online: 30 September 2024 (10:52:04 CEST)
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Nash, C. Nouns as Essential Migration Signifiers for Improving Migrant Mental Health Through Social Services Supporting Problem-Focused or Emotion-Focused Coping. Preprints2024, 2024092401. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2401.v1
Nash, C. Nouns as Essential Migration Signifiers for Improving Migrant Mental Health Through Social Services Supporting Problem-Focused or Emotion-Focused Coping. Preprints 2024, 2024092401. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2401.v1
Nash, C. Nouns as Essential Migration Signifiers for Improving Migrant Mental Health Through Social Services Supporting Problem-Focused or Emotion-Focused Coping. Preprints2024, 2024092401. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2401.v1
APA Style
Nash, C. (2024). Nouns as Essential Migration Signifiers for Improving Migrant Mental Health Through Social Services Supporting Problem-Focused or Emotion-Focused Coping. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2401.v1
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Nash, C. 2024 "Nouns as Essential Migration Signifiers for Improving Migrant Mental Health Through Social Services Supporting Problem-Focused or Emotion-Focused Coping" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2401.v1
Abstract
Migrate is a verb representing a process where the intention of providing social services to migrants is to reduce their instability and discomfort. Consequently, social service providers are inclined to view migrants as pitiful, often also those to be feared, with migrants learning to form negative views of themselves, decreasing their mental health. Considering migration as a verb neglects the noun initiating the migration when the migrant is heading to a person, place, thing, event, or idea. In viewing migration as noun-dependent, the migrant is identifiable as self-directed in seeking aid rather than pitiful or inciting fear. This study aims to examine the types of nouns migrants conceptualize for guiding their migration based on a Google Scholar search of “[noun-type] to which [whom] migrants head in their migration” for each noun type regarding the four most highly cited reports published since 2020. The purpose is to determine the social services applicable to migrants in their self-direction regarding theoretical foundations that contrast problem-focused with emotion-focused coping. Viewing such migration nouns as essential migration signifiers encourages migrants’ favorable identification. In recognizing the intended self-direction of the migrant, their mental health is improved and is supportable through relevant and appropriately available social services.
Keywords
migrate; social services; migrants; mental health; nouns; self-direction; coping
Subject
Social Sciences, Anthropology
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