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Migrant Workers and Psychological Health: A Systematic Review

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Mucci, Nicola, Traversini, Veronica, Giorgi, Gabriele, Tommasi, Eleonora, De Sio, Simone, Arcangeli, Giulio·2019·Sustainability
DOI 10.3390/su12010120
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Migrant workers show an increase in the incidence of serious, psychotic, anxiety, and post-traumatic disorders due to a series of socio-environmental variables, such as loss of social status, discrimination, and separations from the family. The purpose is to elaborate a systematic review and highlight the prevailing psychological pathologies of these workers and categories most at risk. Our research included articles published from 2009 to 2019 on the major databases (Pub Med, Cochrane Library, and Scopus) using a combination of some keywords. The online search indicated 1.228 references. Using inclusion and exclusion criteria, we analyzed 127 articles, in particular 12 reviews and 115 original articles. Principal emerging disorders from the research are depressive syndrome (poor concentration at work, feeling down, or anger and somatization), anxiety, alcohol or substance abuse, and poor sleep quality. This causes low life conditions, which is also due to marginalization from the social context and strenuous work; in fact, migrant workers may suffer verbal or physical abuse, and they are often employed in dangerous, unhealthy jobs. It is therefore essential to increase the role of occupational medicine and promote wellbeing for this vulnerable job category.

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Authors
Mucci, N., Traversini, V., Giorgi, G., Tommasi, E., De Sio, S., & Arcangeli, G.
Affiliations
  • University of Florence (IT)
  • European University of Rome (IT)
  • Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Locomotor Apparatus Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 5 Piazzale Aldo Moro, I-00185 Rome, Italy
Corresponding author
Mucci, Nicola
ORCID
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2019-12-22
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
120
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/su12010120
OpenAlex
W2996466086
Cited by
160
References
151
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 8
FWCI
2.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Identity, and Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Employment and Welfare Studies
Keywords
migrant workers, mental health, mental illness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, sleep quality, discrimination, family separation, occupational hazards, occupational medicine, well-being, vulnerable populations

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