Migrants can go through complex emotional processes, even when they arrive with certain guarantees. Viviana Zapateiro is a psychologist who serves migrants who have arrived in Colombia and Colombians who have migrated to other countries.

According to the International Organization for Migration, IOM, “the estimated number of international migrants has increased over the last five decades” The estimated total of 281 million people living in a country other than their native country in 2020 is 128 million higher than the 1990 figure and more than triples the 1970 figure. Laura Naranjo Domínguez, a Colombian political scientist who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2022 to pursue a master's degree in Politics, Communications and Analysis of data at the University of Essex, has been in consultation with her since last year. She has experienced what is known as migratory grief, which is not the same as others. Many people come to their consultation distressed because migration has not been what they expected, because the people are not as they have always seen them, because everything is different.