ABSTRACT
Moving from one society to another caused emotional difficulties for Margaret Okunde. In this chapter we shall look at some of the different ways migration is believed to be related to mental illness. So far we have been largely concerned with migrants from the New Commonwealth, but we shall see that there are psychological problems involved in moving from one European country to another and even in moving about inside the same country. Is migration always followed by emotional difficulties? Are they related to the stresses of migration itself or do they occur because the sort of people who migrate are unstable? Are migrants liable to any particular type of psychiatric illness? How important for their adjustment are the reasons which led them to move and the types of communities they form afterwards?
