The Trauma of Facing Deportation

In a seventy-six-page guide for treating uppgivenhetssyndrom, published in 2013, the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare advises that a patient will not recover until his family has permission to live in Sweden. “A permanent residency permit is considered by far the most effective ‘treatment,’ ” the manual says. “The turning point will usually be a few months to half a year after the family receives permanent residence.”

(…) For nearly two decades, a political question—What should we do about migration?—has played out through the bodies of hundreds of children. (…) There is now universal consensus that the children are not faking, but no one knows why the illness is particular to Sweden. (…) Björn Axel Johansson, a child psychiatrist at Skåne University Hospital, in southern Sweden, who has treated twelve apathetic children, told me, “I’m not convinced that this is only happening in Sweden. Maybe it’s only being documented and discussed and published in Sweden?”

cf l’article sur les #zombis

Traduction française :
En Suède, de jeunes réfugiés en voie d’expulsion tombent mystérieusement dans le #coma

Les médecins suédois qualifient cette étrange maladie –qui touche les enfants– de « #syndrome_de_résignation ».

▻http://www.slate.fr/story/142124/suede-refugies-expulsion-coma

Trauma for migrant children stranded in Greece - The Lancet
▻http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)30814-0/fulltext

children trapped on the Greek islands are showing signs of depression, anxiety, and distress. Bedwetting, nightmares, and aggressive behaviour are increasing. Some children have witnessed deaths, fires, protests, and police violence in the camps. Basic needs for food, water, and sanitation are barely being met, says the report. Shockingly, children as young as 9 years have attempted suicide or self-harm.

Et en allemand si jamais:
Warum Hunderte Flüchtlingskinder in Schweden ins Koma fallen

„Sie lösen sich einfach von dieser Welt los“: Hunderte Flüchtlingskinder in Schweden sind in einen komaähnlichen Zustand gefallen, nachdem sie erfahren haben, dass ihre Familien abgeschoben werden sollen.

▻http://www.stern.de/gesundheit/warum-in-schweden-hunderte-fluechtlingskinder-ins-koma-fallen-7391212.html