A multisystem perspective on immigrant children and youth risk and resilience: A commentary

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frosso Motti‐Stefanidi
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Risk And Resilience

Regional effects on the mental health of immigrant children: Results from the New Canadian Children and Youth Study (NCCYS)

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 822-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton Beiser ◽  
Nelly Zilber ◽  
Laura Simich ◽  
Rafael Youngmann ◽  
Ada H. Zohar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Regional Effects ◽  
Youth Study

Mitigating the Impact of Forced Displacement and Refugee and Unauthorized Status on Youth

2018 ◽  
pp. 186-206
Author(s):  
Hirokazu Yoshikawa ◽  
Alice J. Wuermli ◽  
J. Lawrence Aber
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Primary School Age

An unprecedented half of the world’s 57 million out of school children live in conflict-affected countries, and 50% of children of primary-school-age are not attending school.  In addition, the unauthorized status of many refugees and migrants worldwide is associated with experiences of social exclusion as access to employment and social services are often unavailable or constrained by host-country governments. Children and youth affected by unauthorized or refugee status are also often excluded from services to support healthy development and learning. This chapter presents a process-oriented developmental framework to guide the development and evaluation of interventions that can buffer the effects of social and political upheaval, displacement, and refugee and unauthorized status on children and youth's development. Rigorous evaluations, showing how programs mitigate the risks of displacement or refugee or unauthorized status, could yield great benefits for the fields of humanitarian aid and refugee and migration policy, making the relative dearth of such evidence even more stunning. This chapter reviews the existing literature from rigorous evaluations of interventions to address these issues, discusses the challenge of measurement of risk and protective factors in these contexts with particular sensitivity to cultural variation, as well as how to address cultural factors in the development and evaluation of interventions. The chapter concludes with specific methodological recommendations for a sound research agenda to further improve our understanding of risk and resilience in development of children and youth affected by war, displacement, and refugee or unauthorized status.

Building a translational science on children and youth affected by political violence and armed conflict: A commentary

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann S. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Translational Science ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Development

AbstractArticles in this timely Special Section represent an important milestone in the developmental science on children and youth involved in political violence and armed conflict. With millions of children worldwide affected by past and present wars and conflicts, there is an urgent and growing need for research to inform efforts to understand, prevent, and mitigate the possible harm of such violence to individual children, families, communities, and societies, for present as well as future generations. The four programs of research highlighted in this Special Section illustrate key advances and challenges in contemporary development research on young people growing up in the midst or aftermath of political violence. These studies are longitudinal, methodologically sophisticated, and grounded in socioecological systems models that align well with current models of risk and resilience in developmental psychopathology. These studies collectively mark a critically important shift to process-focused research that holds great promise for translational applications. Nonetheless, given the scope of the international crisis of children and youth affected by political violence and its sequelae, there is an urgent global need for greater mobilization of resources to support translational science and effective evidence-based action.

Is There a Paradox of Adaptation in Immigrant Children and Youth Across Europe? A Literature Review

2017 ◽  
pp. 261-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radosveta Dimitrova ◽  
Sevgi Bayram Özdemir ◽  
Diana Farcas ◽  
Marianna Kosic ◽  
Stefanos Mastrotheodoros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Children And Youth

Review of Support System for Immigrant Children and Youth in Japan

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
BongSu Park ◽  
Yuhoa Seongok ◽  
Youngsun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Children And Youth

scholarly journals Influence of Perceived Racial Discrimination on Health and Behaviour of Immigrant Children in British Columbia

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Anne George ◽  
Cherylynn Bassani ◽  
Robert W. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Indirect Aggression ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Immigrant Child ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Youth Study ◽  
Using Data

This study examines the influence of perceived discrimination on the health and behaviour of ethnic minority immigrant children in British Columbia, Canada. Using data from the New Canadian Children and Youth Study, we examine perceived discrimination experienced by the parent, family, and cultural group in Canada to test the influence of micro-, meso-, and macrolevels of discrimination on children. Families from 6 ethnic backgrounds participated in the study. Parents’ perceptions of the child’s health and six behavioral scales (hyperactivity, prosocial behaviour, emotional problems, aggression, indirect aggression, and a general combined behaviour scale) were examined as outcome variables. After controlling for ethnicity and background variables, our findings suggest that perceived micro- and macrodiscrimination has the greatest influence on the health and behaviour of our immigrant child sample. Variation among ethnic groups provided the largest explanation of health and behavioural discrepancies in our study.

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