PUSSETTI, Chiara. “The Silence of the Lambs”. The paradoxes of welfarism and the martyrs of the Mediterranean. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.61, pp.263-272. ISSN 1807-5762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622016.0625.
The management of immigrants and refugees has become in recent years a major social challenge. Through the revision of recent international events and of my own field research related to mental health of immigrants and refugees in Portugal I will 1) reconsider the tragic consequences of the hardening of immigration policies and the strengthening of the southern border of Europe; 2) criticize the pathologization the migratory experience in the psychiatric lexicon of ‘trauma’ and its mediatization. Ultimate goals of this reflection are the de-naturalization of the nosological concepts that medicalize social suffering, and the re-politicization of their ‘victims’, recognizing them as active subjects able to strategically use the clinical lexicon, in order to obtaining civil rights.
Palavras-chave : Borders; Public policy; Biolegitimacy; Trauma; Mediatisation.
