Trauma and migration: The role of stigma

Abstract

Migration has been a collective experience for humankind throughout history. There has almost never been a society which has not experienced migration in some form or the other, and currently no such society exists. Some societies have sent many immigrants abroad, some have received or hosted, and still others have been in transit along paths of migration; almost all have experienced migration, though to varying degrees and in varying forms. Humankind does in fact owe its current existence to a combination of migration and evolution. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.