MIGRANT SOCIAL HOPE: EPISTEMIC FRAME AND CONCEPTUAL MODEL

Abstract

This theoretical essay, grounded in a narrative literature review and thematic content analysis, proposes an epistemological framework and a conceptual model for social migrant hope, articulating contributions from social psychology, philosophy, critical geography, psychoanalysis, and migration studies. Departing from Snyder's Hope Theory, the article critiques its individualistic character and advances toward a collective and transnational understanding of hope. Drawing on the contributions of Freire, Harvey, Winnicott, Fromm, Jonas, and Rorty, the study formalizes the model ESM = f(Σ(Iₙ · N꜀) × AC), in which Social Migrant Hope emerges from the interaction between individual agency, shared cultural narratives, and collective action, within a transnational feedback loop. It is concluded that social migrant hope is not merely a psychological resource, but an insurgent social technology that sustains uprooted communities in the struggle for possible futures.