10h30 : Introduction
10h35 : The needs in health education amongst recently arrived Pakistani migrants in France
Johann Cailhol, MCU-PH dans le service de maladies infectieuses du CHU Avicenne, rattachée au LEPS UR 3412, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. Directrice adjointe du LEPS UR 3412, fellow de l’ICM & Sabah Jaroof, étudiante en M2 au LEPS, USPN
Abstract : Based on an ethnographic work, conducted by Nichola Khan and Johann Cailhol in 2018, we conceptualized several public health interventions for the community of recently arrived Pakistani migrants in Paris region. We will review the rationale behind these interventions. We will also present the implementation process of one selected intervention : a bilingual health education website, using a participatory approach.
11h05 : Coloniality, forced migration and mental life : thinking with interdisciplinarity
Nichola Khan, reader in Anthropology and Psychology in the School of Applied Social Science, Centre for Research in Spatial Environmental and Cultural Politics
University of Brighton, fellow à l’ICM.
Abstract : This talk considers the question and challenge of interdisciplinarity in regard to migrant mental health research. That is, how might we cross disciplinary and professional boundaries in order to meaningfully share knowledge, and create new interventions, not only theoretically and methodologically, but as a foundation for ethical engagement. Anthropologists are often asked, or appended, to provide the ‘cultural’ context to otherwise ‘mainstream’ (Western-derived) research. They have voiced criticisms about the ways culture is viewed as an explanation for mental illness, about the claims of the universality of biomedical categories, and the neglect of the social and political foundations of suffering—and achieved changes to the codification of cross-cultural aspects of diagnosis and treatment in the DSM. These changes are in part also driven by anthropology’s struggles to overcome its own problems rooted in esotericism, elitism, and the legacy of colonialism. Building on my previous work on various intersections of migration, mental disorder, and community engagement, I consider this question in relation to interdisciplinarity as an ethical mode of inquiry that can build positively around the inner and cultural lives of migrants, especially in criticizing ways the suffering of people fleeing war-torn societies is selectively prioritized, ignored, or over-coded as traumatic. Coloniality I propose as a valuable ‘tool to think with’- one that that incorporates historicity into a field that prioritizes contemporary conditions. This bears on anthropology’s wider engagements with transcultural psychiatry, politics, psychoanalysis, medicine, law, human rights, and global mental health. These issues are discussed in relation to a specific project-in-development on migrants’ mental well-being in Paris and London.
11h35 : Une intervention psychosociale pour prévenir les troubles psychiatriques chez les personnes étrangères en situation de grande précarité : adaptation et évaluation de l’efficacité de PM
Maria Melchior : Epidémiologiste & directrice d’étude, Institut Pierre-Louis d’épidémiologie et de santé publique, responsable du département HEALTH de l’ICM.
12h10 : Discussions générales
12H30 : Déjeuner
Lieu : Salle 3.01, centre des colloques, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers (Métro : ligne 12, station de métro ‘Front populaire’).