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

Male Immigrant families 330 Adolescent 4. Education Immigrant children 05 social sciences Emigrants and Immigrants 300 United States Child Development Humans Female 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Parent-Child Relations Child 10. No inequality Emigration and immigration Child development Separation (Psychology) in children
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13171 Publication Date: 2018-10-19T15:39:08Z
ABSTRACT
Although many immigrant children to the United States arrive with their parents, a notable proportion are first separated and later reunited with their parents. How do the experiences of separation and reunification shape the well‐being of immigrant children? Data were from a national survey of legal adult immigrants and their families, the New Immigrant Survey from 2003 to 2004 (for academic achievement, age 6–12, N = 876; for psychosocial well‐being, age 6–17, N = 1,084). Results indicated that immigrant children who were once separated from their parents exhibited poorer literacy and higher risk of emotional and behavioral problems than those who migrated with parents. A protracted period of separation and previous undocumented status of parents amplified the disadvantages experienced by these children.
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