EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENTS OF A PREGNANT WOMAN AND IMMIGRANT IN CHILE: STRATEGIES TO REDUCE SUFFERING

Abstract

When migrating, there is a subjective dilemma that not only includes the strangeness of what has been left but also calls for the way in which the rules of the feeling of the society they are confronted face. Therefore, the integration process also involves an emotional dimension. From a case study, with a biographical focus and an ethnographic perspective, I analyze the emotional management that a pregnant and migrant woman develops in the face of public health policy. The objective is to be able to identify the role of emotions in the trajectory of a pregnant Venezuelan user of the Chile Crece Contigo program. The life story shows how particular events, which I identify as possible obstetric and institutional violence, are attenuated by strategies of regulation and emotional transfer, which sublimate rage, pain, and suffering in a process of general migrant integration.