TY - JOUR
T1 - Internally Displaced “Victims of Armed Conflict” in Colombia
T2 - The Trajectory and Trauma Signature of Forced Migration
AU - Shultz, James M.
AU - Garfin, Dana Rose
AU - Espinel, Zelde
AU - Araya, Ricardo
AU - Oquendo, Maria A.
AU - Wainberg, Milton L.
AU - Chaskel, Roberto
AU - Gaviria, Silvia L.
AU - Ordóñez, Anna E.
AU - Espinola, Maria
AU - Wilson, Fiona E.
AU - Muñoz García, Natalia
AU - Gómez Ceballos, Ángela Milena
AU - Garcia-Barcena, Yanira
AU - Verdeli, Helen
AU - Neria, Yuval
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - While conflict-induced forced migration is a global phenomenon, the situation in Colombia, South America, is distinctive. Colombia has ranked either first or second in the number of internally displaced persons for 10 years, a consequence of decades of armed conflict compounded by high prevalence of drug trafficking. The displacement trajectory for displaced persons in Colombia proceeds through a sequence of stages: (1) pre-expulsion threats and vulnerability, (2) expulsion, (3) migration, (4) initial adaptation to relocation, (5) protracted resettlement (the end point for most forced migrants), and, rarely, (6) return to the community of origin. Trauma signature analysis, an evidence-based method that elucidates the physical and psychological consequences associated with exposures to harm and loss during disasters and complex emergencies, was used to identify the psychological risk factors and potentially traumatic events experienced by conflict-displaced persons in Colombia, stratified across the phases of displacement. Trauma and loss are experienced differentially throughout the pathway of displacement.
AB - While conflict-induced forced migration is a global phenomenon, the situation in Colombia, South America, is distinctive. Colombia has ranked either first or second in the number of internally displaced persons for 10 years, a consequence of decades of armed conflict compounded by high prevalence of drug trafficking. The displacement trajectory for displaced persons in Colombia proceeds through a sequence of stages: (1) pre-expulsion threats and vulnerability, (2) expulsion, (3) migration, (4) initial adaptation to relocation, (5) protracted resettlement (the end point for most forced migrants), and, rarely, (6) return to the community of origin. Trauma signature analysis, an evidence-based method that elucidates the physical and psychological consequences associated with exposures to harm and loss during disasters and complex emergencies, was used to identify the psychological risk factors and potentially traumatic events experienced by conflict-displaced persons in Colombia, stratified across the phases of displacement. Trauma and loss are experienced differentially throughout the pathway of displacement.
KW - Complex emergency
KW - Forced displacement
KW - Forced migration
KW - Humanitarian crisis
KW - Internal displacement
KW - Internally displaced persons
KW - TSIG
KW - Trauma signature analysis
KW - Victims of armed conflict
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U2 - 10.1007/s11920-014-0475-7
DO - 10.1007/s11920-014-0475-7
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25135775
AN - SCOPUS:84905876202
VL - 16
JO - Current Psychiatry Reports
JF - Current Psychiatry Reports
SN - 1523-3812
IS - 10
ER -