ABSTRACT

Anthropological approaches to “immigrant mental health” as an object of ethnographic inquiry can illuminate how psychosocial well-being – or decline – and the therapeutic realm of mental health is always enacted by a variety of institutions and social actors. The ways that mental health is understood and approached across different geographical and social settings are constitutive of a range of cultural meanings, norms, and social relations. The authors in this special section provide crucial insights into the landscape of immigrant mental health and how the experience of multiple exclusions influences collective psychosocial well-being. They also illustrate the extent to which narratives shape the production of knowledge around immigration and health, engendering direct effects on public policy, social imaginaries, and community health. Future research in the anthropology of immigration and mental health will need to further elucidate the structural underpinnings and racial capitalist origins of psychosocial decline.

摘要

将“移民心理健康”作为民族志研究的对象的人类学方法可以阐明心理社会福祉（或下降）以及心理健康的治疗领域始终是由各种机构和社会参与者制定的。在不同的地理和社会环境中理解和处理心理健康的方式构成了一系列文化意义、规范和社会关系。本专题的作者提供了有关移民心理健康状况以及多重排斥经历如何影响集体心理社会福祉的重要见解。它们还说明了叙事在多大程度上塑造了围绕移民和健康的知识生产，对公共政策、社会想象和社区健康产生了直接影响。