Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Neves, Rita Almeida
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/142256
Resumo: Immigrant integration is an inherently stressful process that implies psychological challenges. To moderate the impact of the post-migration stressors, social support may play an important role. Using survey data on recently arrived Cape-Verde an migrants in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, we analyse the role of both destination and home social networks on migrants’ mental health. We find that destination networks significantly reduce overall anxiety and female migrants’ emotional distress. However, larger home networks lead to an increase in overall anxiety and are associated with poorer mental health indicators for female migrants, who may be subject to larger pressure to send financial remittances back home. However, home networks have a positive effect in reducing male migrants’ emotional distress.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
title Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
spellingShingle Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
Neves, Rita Almeida
International migration
Portugal
Immigration
Social networks
Mental health
Gender
Cape Verde
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
title_full Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
title_fullStr Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
title_sort Social networks and mental health: the experience of cape-verdean migrants in Portugal
author Neves, Rita Almeida
author_facet Neves, Rita Almeida
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Batista, Cátia
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Neves, Rita Almeida
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv International migration
Portugal
Immigration
Social networks
Mental health
Gender
Cape Verde
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic International migration
Portugal
Immigration
Social networks
Mental health
Gender
Cape Verde
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description Immigrant integration is an inherently stressful process that implies psychological challenges. To moderate the impact of the post-migration stressors, social support may play an important role. Using survey data on recently arrived Cape-Verde an migrants in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, we analyse the role of both destination and home social networks on migrants’ mental health. We find that destination networks significantly reduce overall anxiety and female migrants’ emotional distress. However, larger home networks lead to an increase in overall anxiety and are associated with poorer mental health indicators for female migrants, who may be subject to larger pressure to send financial remittances back home. However, home networks have a positive effect in reducing male migrants’ emotional distress.
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