| dc.description.abstract | Taking care of migrants constitutes a new
challenge for the actual operative structures of the services
in general and for the sanitary service in particular,
requiring a global and permanent rethinking with regards to
both the offer and the procedures for decoding the requests.
What determines the complexity of offering care while
respecting differences is the fact that it can not be done
without the professionals individually deconstructing racism
and maturing an anti-racist awareness. However, attention
to this question is neither widespread nor shared during the
training of doctors and of health service workers in general.
It is necessary, therefore, to broaden the traditional staffclient relationship (usually articulated in the dyad staffsubject/client-object) until it is recognized that both parts
have a double role, both as a subject and as an object, within
the aid process. The transcultural model is based on the
concept of reciprocity. What the transcultural relationship
involves is a parallel process of a redefinition of identity,
both of the doctor or health service worker and of the client:
it is necessary for both to question parameters that they
considered certain, overcoming their inevitable resistance in
the process. It appears necessary to explore within the
training programs the strategies that people, in this specific
case the professionals whose work regards health, adopt to
avoid challenging racism and the implications that these can
have in their daily duties. | en_US |
