The normal human desire involves establishing a new life for yourself and your family in the host country, however the confronting reality can bring up feelings of sadness, loneliness and deep pain, similar to grief-like symptoms. Relocation to a new country brings a sense of loss and reactions that overlap with grief.
What is the process of this kind of grief?
There are two types of losses, physical meaning tangigle loss such as of a love one and symbolic loss, referring to abstract loss, for example the loss of your homeland, social environment, status, ego and social identity, these losses are what immigrants often experience.