Group Dynamics of a Research Team Working in the Field of Migration

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ID14776707
AuthorsLuc Michel (0000-0001-8604-9574, University Outpatient Clinic, Lausanne,, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume34
Issue2
Pages211-219
Publication date2001-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGroup Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0533-3164 • E-ISSN: 1461-717X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0533316401342002
OpenAlexW2097936365
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

This article discusses the dynamics of a research team working on a Swiss National Foundation project, `Migrants and a health network: towards intercultural adaptation'. The focus of the study is to assess a healthcare network and its use by a migrant population and the influence on it by the introduction of cultural mediators. The methods are based on qualitative and action research. The research team is interdisciplinary (somaticians, psychiatrists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, nurses) and the healthcare network studied includes public and private, specialized and general institutions. It was observed that problems (power struggle, exclusion, etc.) partly related to the problems of migration arose in the research team, which gradually became `paralysed' in its work. The team transformed itself into an `anti-group' marked by conflicts and ruptures. The decision to analyse its own behaviour and the underlying conflicts has allowed the research team to recover its sound working basis

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