Experiencing alienation in refugees and displaced persons: Self-perception and perception of social work students

Alienation is by definition congruent to the status of refugees and displaced persons. Almost in ail areas of individual and social life, refugees and displaced persons live a life deprived of its basic dimensions. However, it seems that the perception of the difficulty and complexity of the refugee's and displaced person's situation is far more serious in those who observe this situation from the outside, who are not directly involved. Examining the feeling of alienation of refugees and displaced persons as well as the perception of their alienation by social work students, we have found that the students assess this population's alienation far more seriously than the population itself. Seeman's questionnaire was used and completed with the newly constructed scale ''Alienation of proper corporeality''. In all modalities, social work students assess the alienation of refugees and displaced persons significantly more seriously than the refugees and displaced persons themselves.