Diverse Experience of Immigrant Children: How Do Separation and Reunification Shape Their Development?

• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13171
• Publication Date: 2018-10-19T15:39:08Z
• Authors: Yao Lu; Qian He; Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn
• Keywords: Separation (statistics); Child Development

Although many immigrant children to the United States arrive with their parents, a notable proportion are first separated and later reunited parents. How do experiences of separation reunification shape well-being children? Data were from national survey legal adult immigrants families, New Immigrant Survey 2003 2004 (for academic achievement, age 6-12, N = 876; for psychosocial well-being, 6-17, 1,084). Results indicated that who once parents exhibited poorer literacy higher risk emotional behavioral problems than those migrated A protracted period previous undocumented status amplified disadvantages experienced by these children.