Abstract
Migration and globalization always existed and will always exist. Acceleration makes all phenomena take a path which is exponential. This means that the speed of change is speeding up. The “accelerated globalization” must be decelerated, because more power needs more responsibility and more ethics, individually and globally.
The psychosocial consequences of this acceleration are good in some aspects (sense of being citizen of the world, better governance and democracy), but it clearly has bad aspects for almost all of us, especially the most vulnerable, leading to mental health problems, especially mood disorders. More research is needed in this field that is just at its beginning.
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Moussaoui, D. (2021). Migration, Globalization, and Mental Health. In: Moussaoui, D., Bhugra, D., Tribe, R., Ventriglio, A. (eds) Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration. Mental Health and Illness Worldwide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2366-8_2
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