The Cross-culturalism and Psychology of Migration Area welcomes contributions from members whose professional experience includes the challenge of working with people from other cultures. Many of us work in clinical professions that include providing health care for migrants. Recognizing the evident limitations of our professional tools and modes of understanding when we work with people with habits, values, customs and views that are very different from our own, we felt the need to educate ourselves and change our approach to care to try to inhabit the perspective of the other. This entails clarifying and refining concepts and tools we can take for granted in our usual practice, as we consider them to be implicitly shared by health professionals and patients who share our own cultural perspectives - though this is not necessarily always the case.