THE PROBLEMS OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF THE BELARUSIAN EMIGRANTS IN LATIN AMERICA (1918–1939th)

UDC 314.15–026.49

  • Koval Volha Uladzimirauna – PhD (History), Assistant Professor, the Department of History of Belarus and Political Science. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: koval@belstu.by

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2520-6885-2021-245-1-53-57

Key words: Belarusian diaspora, emigration, social-psychological adaptation, law adaptation, Latin America, Argentina, Brazil.

For citation: Koval V. U. The problems of socio-psychological adaptation of the Belarusian emigrants in Latin America (1918–1939th). Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2021, no. 1 (245), pp. 51–57 (In Belarusian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2520-6885-2021-245-1-53-57.

Abstract

The article analyzes the problems of social and psychological adaptation processes of the Belarusian emigrants in Latin America. Particular attention is paid to the economic emigration wave to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay. The study is based on the law of the recipient states. The author comes to the conclusion about the influence the legal adaptation over the psychological adaptation. This paper deals with the problems of the negative impact of the language barrier, physiological and psychological stress to acculturation and the individual adaptation of the emigrants. The global economic crisis has raised the unemployment rate, which negatively affected to the employment of emigrants.

Many Belarusian emigrants were from Western Belarus during the interwar period. The analysis of the emigration processes was carried out by a special state organization of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection. The Emigration office carried out the information work among the population about the countries of Latin America for the process of the socio-psychological adaptation of the emigrants.

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