Slootjes Jasmijn, Keuzenkamp Saskia, Saharso Sawitri
1Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative/D-Lab, UC Berkeley, Barrows Hall, Room 350H, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
Movisie - Netherlands Centre for Social Development, Catharijnesingel 47, 3511 GC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Comp Migr Stud. 2018;6(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s40878-018-0088-0. Epub 2018 Jul 20.
Migrant women in Europe have a higher incidence of health problems and have disproportionately high unemployment rates. We examine how Dutch and Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese first and second generation migrant women escape the vicious cycle between health problems and unemployment by using the theory of the Sense of Coherence (SOC). We study how SOC works and whether SOC is also applicable outside the domain of health. Our findings from life story interviews ( = 54) show that women can escape this vicious cycle through the meaningful reconstruction of adversity. Women can put a halt on the on-going negative chain reaction through focusing on the meaning and purpose of adversity. We name such life stories narratives of meaningful endurance, which are characterized by structure, authorship and meaningful reconstruction, in opposition to its counterpart, narratives of non-directional distress. The three respective components of SOC - comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness - enable the attainment of a narrative of meaningful endurance and individuals with a stronger SOC are more likely to tell narratives of meaningful endurance. Theoretical and policy implications of our findings are discussed.
欧洲的移民女性健康问题发生率较高，失业率也高得不成比例。我们运用连贯感理论（SOC）来研究荷兰、土耳其、摩洛哥和苏里南的第一代及第二代移民女性如何摆脱健康问题与失业之间的恶性循环。我们研究连贯感是如何发挥作用的，以及连贯感是否也适用于健康领域之外。我们从生活故事访谈（n = 54）中得出的结果表明，女性可以通过对逆境进行有意义的重构来摆脱这种恶性循环。女性可以通过关注逆境的意义和目的来终止正在进行的负面连锁反应。我们将此类生活故事称为有意义忍耐的叙事，其特点是结构、自主性和有意义的重构，与之相对的是无方向痛苦的叙事。连贯感的三个各自独立的组成部分——可理解性、可管理性和意义性——促成了有意义忍耐叙事的实现，而具有更强连贯感的个体更有可能讲述有意义忍耐的叙事。我们讨论了研究结果的理论和政策意义。
