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Immigration in Brazilian medical and psychiatric discourse in the post-Second World War period
Guilherme Dos Santos Cavotti Marques1, Carolina da Costa de Carvalho2
1Pesquisador, Centro de Memória da Imigração da Ilha das Flores / Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro . São Gonçalo - RJ - Brasil guilherme-cavotti@hotmail.com.
Abstract:
The article analyzes the contributions of psychiatry to the debate on health and immigration in the post-Second World War, when Brazil received war refugees and displaced persons from Eastern Europe. The concern with mental disorders attributed to war traumas made mental health a topic of debate in the specialized press. From the analysis of medical articles published in the journals Arquivos Brasileiros de Higiene Mental and Arquivos Brasileiros de Neuriatria e Psiquiatria and in Revista de Imigração e Colonização, we seek to understand the relevance of immigration as a field in which psychiatrists took action and vied for legitimacy as authorities in the preparation of Brazil's immigration policies.
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