scholarly journals Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents’ Resilient Adaptation: Who does well and why?

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi ◽  
Vassilis Pavlopoulos ◽  
Nancy Papathanasiou ◽  
Stefanos Mastrotheodoros
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

Resilient adaptation of immigrant and refugee youth in receiving societies is consequential for the wellbeing of the youth and the prosperity of the receiving societies. Yet there is significant diversity in their adaptation. The central question addressed in this article is: “Who among immigrant and refugee youth do well and why?” To address this question, we present an integrative model for conceptualizing immigrant-youth resilience, which integrates developmental, acculturation, and social psychological perspectives. This resilience framework frames research on the basis of two key questions: First, what challenges immigrant youths’ adaptation? Second, what resources protect their positive adaptation? Accordingly, we present scientific evidence regarding the influence of immigration-specific challenges and contextual and individual-level resources on their positive adaptation. Extant evidence suggests that focusing on strengths and resilience, instead of on weaknesses and psychological symptoms, among immigrant and refugee youth may have significant implications for policy and practice.

Immigrant and Refugee Youth Positive Adaptation and Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
Personal Capital ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

The positive adaptation and integration of immigrant and refugee youth in host societies are crucial not only for their well-being but also for the well-being and prosperity of society. However, they face developmental and acculturative challenges, which may put at risk their positive adaptation. In addition, refugee youth have to deal with challenges linked to traumatic experiences before and during their forced migration and after seeking asylum in the host country. In spite of these challenges, most immigrant and refugee youth, after an initial period, will adapt well to their new environment. The chapter addresses the question: Who among immigrant and refugee youth do well, concurrently and over time, and why? Scientific evidence regarding barriers and resources for positive immigrant and refugee youth adaptation is presented and discussed. Public policy recommendations that aim to eliminate barriers to positive adaptation and to enhance their social and personal capital are also formulated.

scholarly journals Toward a Multisystemic Resilience Framework for Migrant Youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Qiaobing Wu ◽  
Ying Ou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Resilience Framework

This chapter proposes an integrative framework to understand the resilience of youth in the context of migration. It first refines the concept of resilience and provides a definition particularly for this population—a process toward positive adaptation and development despite the challenging environmental changes and life transitions that occur during migration. Considering that this process is influenced by various factors embedded in multiple systems, the authors propose a Multisystemic Resilience Framework for migrant youth that uses the photosynthesis of green plants as an analogy to demonstrate in a leaf-shaped figure the dynamic process of resilience shaped by three interactive systems: intrapersonal microsystem, interpersonal mesosystem, and institutional macrosystem. Migrant youths are positioned as active agents in the center who mobilize resources from and facilitate interactions across multiple systems. The chapter concludes by illustrating the complex interplay between systems in the framework and discussing potential implications for research, policy, and practice.

scholarly journals Using Attachment and Relational Perspectives to Understand Adaptation and Resilience among Immigrant and Refugee Youth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda P. Juang ◽  
Jeffry Simpson ◽  
Richard M. Lee ◽  
Alexander Rothman ◽  
Peter F. Titzmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Life Transition ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

Migration is a critical issue for child development in the 21st century. We expand on García Coll et al.’s (1996) integrative model of minority child development by drawing from principles of attachment theory and interpersonal relationships research to offer new insights into how youth manage and respond to migration experiences. Immigrant and refugee youth should experience better outcomes to the extent that they: (1) maintain strong relationships with caregivers and peers that provide a sense of closeness, safety, and confidence during the process of adjusting to this life transition, and (2) find ways to establish a sense of connection and belonging to the new people, places, communities, and social networks within which they now live. Strong bonds to people and connection to places (both familiar and new) can counter the social stratification consequences to minority youth development that are well articulated in García Coll et al.’s integrative model. The need for new and better strategies that promote the positive development of immigrant and refugee youth within their families, schools, work places, and communities is crucial, not only for individuals and families, but for society as a whole.

Resilience Among Immigrant Youths: Who Adapts Well, and Why?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 510-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Positive Adaptation

Successful adaptation among immigrant youths is a highly important issue for multiple stakeholders in many countries because of its potential long-term significance for the well-being of migrants and the prosperity and social cohesion of the receiving societies. In this article, I examine immigrant-youth adaptation through the lens of a recently developed resilience model. What are the risks that threaten immigrant youths’ adaptation? What are the promotive or protective influences that support their positive adaptation? These questions are addressed using scientific evidence drawn from the Athena Studies of Resilient Adaptation project, a two-cohort, three-wave longitudinal project on immigrant-youth adaptation conducted in Greece, as well as from the international literature. Risks and resources for immigrant youths’ concurrent and long-term adaptation are examined in societal, developmental, and acculturative contexts. The integrative model and related scientific findings may inform public policy, as well as guide future research.

scholarly journals A Multi-level Review of Engineering Ethics Education: Towards a Socio-technical Orientation of Engineering Education for Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Adela Martin ◽  
Eddie Conlon ◽  
Brian Bowe
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Engineering Ethics Education ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis paper aims to review the empirical and theoretical research on engineering ethics education, by focusing on the challenges reported in the literature. The analysis is conducted at four levels of the engineering education system. First, the individual level is dedicated to findings about teaching practices reported by instructors. Second, the institutional level brings together findings about the implementation and presence of ethics within engineering programmes. Third, the level of policy situates findings about engineering ethics education in the context of accreditation. Finally, there is the level of the culture of engineering education. The multi-level analysis allows us to address some of the limitations of higher education research which tends to focus on individual actors such as instructors or remains focused on the levels of policy and practice without examining the deeper levels of paradigm and purpose guiding them. Our approach links some of the challenges of engineering ethics education with wider debates about its guiding paradigms. The main contribution of the paper is to situate the analysis of the theoretical and empirical findings reported in the literature on engineering ethics education in the context of broader discussions about the purpose of engineering education and the aims of reform programmes. We conclude by putting forward a series of recommendations for a socio-technical oriented reform of engineering education for ethics.

Against evidence-based oppression: Marginalized youth and the politics of risk-based assessment and intervention

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Goddard ◽  
Randolph R Myers
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Needs Assessments ◽  
Actuarial Risk ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Causes Of Crime

Actuarial risk/needs assessments exert a formidable influence over the policy and practice of youth offender intervention. Risk-prediction instruments and the programming they inspire are thought not only to link scholarship to practice, but are deemed evidence-based. However, risk-based assessments and programs display a number of troubling characteristics: they reduce the lived experience of racialized inequality into an elevated risk score; they prioritize a very limited set of hyper-individualistic interventions, at the expense of others; and they privilege narrow individual-level outcomes as proof of overall success. As currently practiced, actuarial youth justice replicates earlier interventions that ask young people to navigate structural causes of crime at the individual level, while laundering various racialized inequalities at the root of violence and criminalization. This iteration of actuarial youth justice is not inevitable, and we discuss alternatives to actuarial youth justice as currently practiced.

‘I Am Doing a Double Thing. It Is For Me and It Is For Her’

Young ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Dimitri Selimos
Keyword(s):  
General Situation ◽  
New Host ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Migration Narratives ◽  
Future Selves ◽  
Intergenerational Links ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

This article draws on 30 interviews conducted with newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in Canada to explore how they make sense of their migration and the consequences these meanings have on how they imagine their future selves. The article is based on the understanding that a key task of any immigrant is to negotiate the experiences of continuity and change indicative of the migration experience—a task that takes on unique contours for young immigrants who are simultaneously negotiating their transitions to adulthood. Analysis of the migration narratives of newcomer youth demonstrates that in making sense of their migration, young migrants draw on the general situation of their country of descent, their experiences of emigration and poignant intergenerational links to construct meaning of their lives in their new country of residence. These meanings orient their social actions and animate their life projects in their new host society.

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