Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of the specific psychosocial risks faced by migrant workers. After analysing the occupational and contextual factors linked to job insecurity and precariousness, we delineate the risks described by the literature. In order to organise and categorise these risks, we have grouped them into three broad types of frustration that they generate in migrant workers (each linked to basic psychological needs). Specifically, these frustrations are associated with the difficulties that these workers face in relation to the development of their occupational and career competences, the lack of autonomy in their work, the decision-making of the organisation, and the importance that migrant workers give to social relationships among colleagues along the difficulties they have in establishing and maintaining these.
The chapter then discusses the consequences of these risk factors on the health (especially psychological) of migrant workers, most of whom report increased levels of discomfort and illness than native workers, with the exception of a few studies who report the reverse trend. The chapter concludes with some plausible explanations for such differences, as well as the main limitations of the current studies and some guidelines to consider for future studies in this area.
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