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
AUTHORS (3)
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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