[Children of the République are also migrants: school, an ethnopsychiatric laboratory]

The author describes an ethnopsychological consultation service at the Charles Hermite school in Paris' 18ème arrondissement. The author, herself trained in ethnopsychiatry by T. Nathan, opened this first consultation service which objectives are to promote the ethnopsychiatric approach in the fields of school psychology, psychotherapy and education, in order to sustain a reflection with a dialectic questioning: how to take into account at the same time, the cultural and linguistic specificities that constitute the symbolic world of the migrant child, and the strictly coded world of a Jules Ferry inspired school, and finally, how to put into practice an operative that is directed towards the problems of a specific population without bringing about processes of stigmatization, so often present in schools.