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Again and again there are complaints by the general public and management about the untrustworthiness, uncleanliness, asociality and immorality of foreign workers. These complaints point to a psychological phenomenon which has not yet been understood in its entirety — or at least been underestimated: the nostalgic reaction, commonly known as “homesickness”.
This work was originally prepared for a speech to a group of laymen. It is oversimplified and should be considered complementary to this author’s work THE NOSTALGIC PHENOMENON AND ITS EXPLOITATION (Pp. 19–47).
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As answer to my taking up the defense of the rights of foreign workers in a newspaper (Zwingmann, 1971), that is to congregate at the railway station of Frankfurt/Main, I received a flood of angry and hostile letters from German citizens.
The surprise of the administrative and medical officials however was great when Errico at his arrival and reunion with his compatriotes did not react joyfully but in hostile manner. — According to this interpretation the over-valuation of his nostalgic image (n. illusion) had apparently been so great, that the confrontation with reality resulted in a shock, because his weakened physical and psychological condition made a correction of the illusion impossible.
Rodriguez, R., Difficulties of Adjustment in Immigrant Children in Geneva, in Médecine et Hygiène, 845, 1968, 1–6. Translation from French.
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Zwingmann, C. (1973). Nostalgic Behavior. In: Uprooting and After.... Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95213-5_12
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