Estrategias de resiliencia y convivencia de los refugiados colombianos radicados en la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

Coexistence involves a number of psychosocial factors that make social interaction complex, even more when we talk about two or more cultures in contact inside a same context. Our particular interest is the study of the strategies used by Colombian refugees in search of a proper integration to the environment in Cuenca, considering their migratory condition and how stressful it may have been it in their lives, in other words, we pretend to understand coexistence and resilience strategies used to face stressful situations, by those who were investigated. In our investigation we had the voluntary collaboration of seven Colombian refugees, living in our city. The information used for the analysis was obtained through deep interviews, its purpose is to know the reality from the participants interpretation, additionally, the participant observation was applied in the environments were they develop. Of what has been said, during the development of this document, the results of the research process are put into consideration of the reader.