Title: Using Video in Phenomenographic Research on Senegal’s Mental Health Care System: Implications for Black Studies
Abstract: Africans have constituted a large visible immigrant group in several large US urban areas over the last three decades. The number of African immigrants to the United States increased from 110,000 between 1961 and 1980 to nearly 532,000 between 1981 and 2000. Severe postcolonial economic and political struggles in Europe and Africa, as well as educational and financial opportunities in the US, have contributed to the increase in working and middle-class African immigrants. Many of these African immigrants maintain transnational identities. They frequently continue to care for their families in Africa. This study of Senegalese belief systems as they relate to health care practices provides important insights for understanding new immigrant African experiences in the United States as well as the issues health care providers and other social services practitioners should consider.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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