[The transplanted psychiatrist and his uprooted clients]

Referring mental patients to psychiatrists coming from the same background and origin as the migrant patient is not without danger. The risk of creating a ghetto psychiatry is real if the staff is not poly-institutional. In the context of a Parisian sectorial practice, the problems facing the transplanted psychiatrist and his suffering compatriots are more than what can be imagined, specially if his hierarchic situation is that of being responsible for the sector.