Levitan Déborah
Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Neuchâtel, FLSH - Espace Louis Agassiz 1, CH - 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2019 Jun;53(2):258-282. doi: 10.1007/s12124-018-9448-4.
In the context of migratory instabilities, an increasing number of professionals engage in repeated moves across countries with their families, living more or less permanently on the move. Yet the international adjustments of these families are usually studied in terms of the adaptation of family members to a single host country. This article uses in-depth interviews conducted with families in repeated geographical mobility and currently living in Switzerland to identify the strategies enabling them to move across countries while adjusting to diverse sociocultural environments. By bringing together studies on psychology with those on migration and mobility, the article introduces the specific challenge of repeated geographical mobility and sets out a theoretical framework for understanding this phenomenon from a sociocultural perspective. It then presents three types of strategies employed by families. The findings show that against the backdrop of constant changes, families recreate the same spheres of experience everywhere, transform their relations to objects, and build a continuum of social relationships by enlarging their social networks while focusing inward on the relationships within the nuclear family. The analyses bring to the fore a new modality of establishing a sense of continuity that involves a complete reconfiguration of investments so to embrace more complex ways to cope with the apparent concurrent requirement of adjusting to a new country while preserving some degree of mobility in view of the next move. The research sheds light on very contemporary dynamics embedded in the broader unfolding context of mobility by taking into account its experiential dimension.
在迁徙不稳定的背景下，越来越多的专业人士带着家人在不同国家间反复迁移，几乎一直处于流动状态。然而，这些家庭的国际适应情况通常是从家庭成员对单一东道国的适应角度进行研究的。本文通过对处于反复地理流动且目前居住在瑞士的家庭进行深入访谈，来确定使他们能够在跨国迁移的同时适应不同社会文化环境的策略。通过将心理学研究与移民和流动研究结合起来，本文介绍了反复地理流动的特殊挑战，并从社会文化角度出发，为理解这一现象建立了一个理论框架。然后，本文介绍了家庭采用的三种策略类型。研究结果表明，在不断变化的背景下，家庭在各地重建相同的经验领域，改变他们与物品的关系，并通过扩大社交网络同时关注核心家庭内部的关系来建立连续的社会关系。分析揭示了一种建立连续性的新方式，这涉及对投资进行全面重新配置，以便采用更复杂的方式来应对在适应新国家的同时，为下一次迁移保持一定程度流动性这一明显的并行要求。该研究通过考虑流动的体验维度，揭示了更广泛的流动背景中所蕴含的非常现代的动态。
