Migration and Mental Health
Migration and Mental Health
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移民与心理健康
DOI：
10.1057/978-1-137-52968-8_5
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发表时间：
2016
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Jackson W
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作者：
Jackson W
在二十世纪的头二十年，多达50万人从不列颠群岛乘船前往南部非洲，其中很大一部分人至少有一些永久移民的想法。几乎所有这些游客都在开普敦度过，开普敦不仅是移民进入非洲次大陆的主要入境点，也是各种士兵、投机者、传教士和殖民官员的主要入境点，以及各种各样的暂住者，对他们来说，开普敦只是非洲、南半球和所谓的英国世界更广泛行程中的一段插曲。本章以二十世纪初的开普敦为背景，通过对精神科和非精神科档案资料的综合分析，考察移民与心理健康的融合。通过查看精神病人的病例档案以及与其他类型的痛苦的英国移民有关的病例档案，它的目的是将心理健康--及其失败--置于一个更广泛的社会和历史背景中，而不是仅仅关注精神疾病。
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, as many as half a million people sailed from the British Isles to southern Africa, a significant proportion of them with at least some idea in mind of permanent migration. Almost all of these travellers spent time in Cape Town, the principal entry point to the subcontinent not only for migrants but also for assorted soldiers, speculators, missionaries and colonial officials and a miscellany of transients for whom Cape Town represented just one episode within much wider itinerations across Africa, the southern hemisphere and the, so-called, ‘British world’. This chapter takes Cape Town in the early twentieth century as its setting to investigate the confluence of migration and mental health through an integrated analysis of psychiatric and non-psychiatric archival sources. By looking at the case files of mental patients alongside case files relating to other kinds of distressed British migrants, its aim is to place mental health—and its failing—in a wider social and historical context than an exclusive focus on mental illness can allow.