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A Transit Center for Foreign victims of trafficking is a transitional experience in between the hell of abuse, exploitation, slavery and violence, and the presumed heaven upon return to the home country. Any kind of assistance provided in a Transit Center, from medical to legal, from psychological to vocational, has to consider this "transitional” issue, which has symbolic as well as practical implications. The psychosocial assistance provided to victims of trafficking in a Transit Center has to deal, in particular, with the trauma provoked by past experiences and the expectations for life in the future and its accompanying problems. The present, which is usually the center of psychosocial work, plays a very different therapeutic role in this setting. Indeed the present is a suspended time, a time in which action is limited, de-contextualized and fictional, but also a time which gives space for reflection, re-elaboration, preparation, training and projection.
Psychosocial notebook, Vol.4, February 2004 |
