El proceso de duelo en la familia que emigra: del Síndrome de Ulises" a la patología"

In this article, we will describe migration as a process in which profound losses occur. The reaction to the loss constitutes a mourning process, which begins before the migration with ambivalence and ends with the reintroduction of the object when the integration of the family into the host society takes place. Depending on how the migration is carried out, the mourning can be elaborated (normal migration), it will generate difficulties such as the Chronic and Multiple Stress Migrant Syndrome (Ulysses Syndrome) or the elaboration will fail, thus creating risk situations in which the family can become disorganised and become ill.