BEING A REFUGEE IN QUEBEC: A PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXILE
This qualitative study aims to better grasp the lived experience of refugees in Quebec. Fourteen refugees from the Montreal region participated in semi-structured interviews. The narratives were obtained and analyzed following an interpretative and phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach (Smith et Osborn, 2003). Analysis revealed three central themes: a temporality with no escape, a relation to the self between rupture and continuity and a relation to the world between dignity and exclusion. The results are interpreted through humanist, systemic and transcultural lenses and draw on writings on the phenomenology of suffering. The article concludes on contributions and on clinical implications.