Psychology of Migration

Welcome to this site.

It is dedicated to a project that is linked to researching 'psychological mechanisms for adaptation of immigrants to new cultural surroundings'. This site was created with informative and practical aims: to let everybody become familiar with the scientific point of view behind the psychological peculiarities of the migration process, and for developing this project whose main goals are working out and improving methods of the psychologist's work in consulting migrating people.

About the site and psychology

Our values and even the ways we express our feelings have their roots in the society with which we live. They appear automatically as a reaction to different triggers that we have been familiar with since childhood. When we come to another country, suddenly finding that everybody reacts to the same triggers but in different ways, we can experience something like shock. These differences can lead to conflicts, the only way to change the situation is to realise why each has happened.

What differences between cultures lead to conflicts? What personal points help us to work them out? What outer factors influence our life during immigration? And who knows maybe a successful adaptation to another country is hidden in the special combination of these questions? That's all we can know walking through the pages of this site.

Any questions

About the site and its content, please write to:

au-migration@yandex.ru

Sincerely yours,

Katerina (author of project)