To Feel and to Re-signify Forced Displacement in Colombia

Abstract

This chapter presents, first, an analysis of the feelings expressed by people living in situations of forced displacement in Colombia. This analysis is based on different research projects into displacement and the psychosocial accompaniment of people suffering it. This participatory action research was conducted within the "Social Bonds and Cultures of Peace" group, among different communities of uprooted people. Feelings are explored in the narratives of those who underwent displacement, and were included in the aforesaid studies; each of the feelings mentioned by the displaced people is illustrated with statements. We then present the conceptualization of the process of psychosocial accompaniment of displaced people, and finally, when presenting the re-signification of these feelings, we analyze how, in the face of adversity, the displaced reconstruct their lives in an unfamiliar cultural setting (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)