We are very happy to share with h-madness readers the organization of a study day around migrations and mental health. The day is organized as part of the project funded by ANR-FNR The mental health of migrants: actors, practices and networks-1950-1980, France, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain (led by Marianna Scarfone and Benoît Majerus) and the seminar Psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis: intertwined histories, with the support of the Centre Alexandre Koyré and the IUF.

See the programme below.

Room 50, EHESS building, Campus Condorcet

Morning Session

9:30 Introduction: Marianna Scarfone and Benoît Majerus

Chair: Anne Rasmussen

9:45 : Léna Monème (University of Luxembourg) The Implications of the 1959 Mental Health Act for Mentally Ill Immigrants in the UK

10:15 : Marianna Scarfone (University of Strasbourg) Psychiatric Hospitals in the Seine Region and Patients of North African Origin in the Mid-20th Century

10:45 : Benoît Majerus (University of Luxembourg) Psychiatry and Migration in Germany (1950s-1990s): Traces of a Hesitant Encounter

11:15 : Alice Aigrain (University of Strasbourg) ‘Adaptation’, ‘Assimilation’, ‘Integration’: Psychiatrists Confronting a Political Concern in Switzerland in the 1960s-1970s

11:45 : Discussion

12:30 : Lunch Break

Chair : Richard Rechtman

2:30 : Mathias Gardet (Historical Exhibition Center for Children in Justice, Savigny-sur-Orge) Young Algerians at the Observation Center for Juvenile Offenders in Savigny-sur-Orge in the 1950s: The Invention of a North African Complex

3:00 : Cristina Ferreira (Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne) Psychiatric Expertise of Italian Patients in Lausanne (1950-1970)

3:30 : Baher Ibrahim (Glasgow University and NHS Scotland) Medicalizing the Refugee Experience: Fractured Continuities and Claims of Novelty in the Psychiatric Study of Forced Migration

4:00 : Discussion

French version

Matinée

9.30 Introduction : Marianna Scarfone et Benoît Majerus

Présidence : Anne Rasmussen

9.45 :

Léna Monème (Université du Luxembourg)

The implications of the 1959 Mental Health Act for mentally ill immigrants in the UK

10.15 : Marianna Scarfone (Université de Strasbourg) 

Les hôpitaux psychiatriques de la Seine et les patients d’origine nord-africaine au milieu du XXème siècle

10.45 : Benoît Majerus (Université du Luxembourg)

Psychiatrie et migration en Allemagne (années 1950-années 1990). Traces d’une rencontre hésitante

11.15 : Alice Aigrain (Université de Strasbourg) :

‘Adaptation’, ‘assimilation’, ‘ intégration’ :  les psychiatres face à une préoccupation politique dans la Suisse des années 1960-1970

11.45 : discussion

 12.30 : Pause déjeuner

Présidence : Richard Rechtman

14.30 : Mathias Gardet (Centre d’exposition historique Enfants en Justice, Savigny-sur-Orge)

Jeunes algériens au centre d’observation de l’Education surveillée de Savigny-sur-Orge dans les années 1950 ou l’invention d’un complexe nord-africain

15.00 : Cristina Ferreira (Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne)

Expertises psychiatriques de patients italiens à Lausanne (1950-1970)

15.30 : Baher Ibrahim (Glasgow University and NHS Scotland)

Medicalizing the Refugee Experience. Fractured Continuities and Claims of Novelty in the Psychiatric Study of Forced Migration

16.00 : discussion