A scientific study carried out by specialists in social areas in Cuba showed that the greatest aspiration of the island’s children is to leave the country.
The study by the Universidad de Oriente, led by sociologists, pedagogues, social communicators, journalists and official psychiatrists, analyzed the consequences of migration on the educational performance of basic level students.
With this analysis, it was revealed that there is a problem of “idealization” of migration among the children and adolescents of the Island, who minimize their studies and downplay their importance because they do not think about becoming professionals in Cuba, but instead dream of emigrating. .
The Migration Research Project of the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Sociology of the Universidad de Oriente analyzed students from five schools in the province of Santiago de Cuba, with different ages.
In the attempt to unravel the “atypical situations” that affect the teaching-learning process in students, the team found that the priority and “dream” of the majority of minors in Cuba is to be able to leave the country one day, and that their efforts and hopes are directed.
“A modification of life projects is observed, which affects friendship and couple relationships and consequently the ways in which development tasks are faced at certain stages of life are transformed. Thinking about migration as a short-term goal results in a lack of motivation for studies,” the work states.
“When the psychological dynamics of the five desires were applied to him, the center of his responses was ‘leave the country’ (…) When one does not fulfill a development task, the life cycle becomes difficult; Life projects are not determined because the desire to emigrate does not give room for this,” said Dr. Raida Margarita Dusu Contreras, Head of the Department of Psychology.
The specialist warned that the hope of escaping the Island not only has consequences on the academic and social life of Cuban children, but also puts their physical integrity at risk, since they prioritize migration at any cost, regardless of whether it means taking risks for themselves. to be able to leave the country -as would be the case of rafters and migrants who cross Central America-.
The study also found in its surveys that many Cuban children have one or even both parents abroad, with the promise of taking them one day, and have been left in the care of grandparents or other relatives.
The truth is that the emigration rate in Cuba is not only high, but the majority of emigrants are young people of working agewith the elderly being the only growing group on the Island for years.
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