Educational strategies to generate security for displaced people in Spain

Abstract

Displaced populations are made up of emigrants, immigrants, asylees, refugees and stateless persons. Each of these people leaves their country and their vital attachments for different reasons. The aim they share is the search for security, either vital, legal or economic security. The objective pursued is not always achieved. This clash between expectation and reality adds up to a permanent uncertainty to a large number of the displaced people. The most vulnerable can develop a specific immigrant syndrome with chronic and multiple stress (Ulysses Syndrome). This psychosocial mismatch, since 1985, is tackled interdisciplinarily from medicine, psychology, education and social work. In this discursive-informative article some results of two investigations that combine quantitative and qualitative methodology are transferred. Objective 4 of Research CSO2016-77549-P (National R&D Plan, AEI / FEDER, EU) and the prospective research Literacy for social integration of immigrants and adult refugees in Spain (Europe-Research Assistance Program. UNED-Banco Santander, 2017/2019). The results of these investigations in the field of education, sociology and social education indicate some of the educational and socio-community strategies that can help displaced people arriving in Spain to lower their level of uncertainty and increase their sense of security. They are strategies that put into practice will avoid medicalizing people who do not need drugs. People who suffer from a psychosocial imbalance that needs emotional support, psychoeducational therapy, legal advice and empathic treatment by the society of the host country. The execution of these strategies will help to emotionally strengthen each one of the displaced people, being able to redirect the behavioral, cognitive and psychophysiological expression of the response system given to the perceived negative emotions.