Immigrant youth resilience in the context of challenging receiving societies.

Motti‐Stefanidi, Frosso

doi:10.1037/0000298-025

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“…Second, both risk and resilience are distributed across multiple systems (Masten, 2014). In particular, immigration is a multisystem social phenomenon, which presents challenges and threatens to destabilize not only the individuals migrating, but also their proximal contexts, such as their schools and families, as well as receiving societies (Motti‐Stefanidi, in press). All of these interacting systems, spanning societal to individual levels, including immigrants and nonimmigrants alike, change as they adapt to a new reality.…”

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

Motti‐Stefanidi

2021

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Migration is a defining phenomenon of the 21st century. Even though it is historically not a new phenomenon, the current migratory movements are unprecedented. During the past decades millions of people, including families and their children, migrated often from lowand middle-income countries of the Global South toward Western more affluent countries (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, 2016). The experience of war, atrocities, political persecution, climate change, or utter poverty are among the key push motives that drive people to leave their home country and seek a safer, freer, and generally better future for themselves and their children in another country (Masten et al., 2019).As a result of these migratory flows, the face of Western countries has changed. Most have become ethnically and racially more diverse. They face the challenge of integrating migrants into the fabric of society. However, the presence of migrants is often threatening for local populations. In recent years, nationalist movements use an anti-immigrant rhetoric and agenda to gain power. The public debate over migration in Europe and the United States is at times ferocious (Motti-Stefanidi & Salmela-Aro, 2018). At the same time, in light of increasing life expectancies and decreasing birth rates in Western countries, it is clear that today's immigrant children and youth will become a vital part of the economic future of host societies (Hernandez, 2012). Thus, it is of paramount importance to have well-integrated immigrants, with an emphasis on young immigrants whose future is tied to that of the receiving society.Young immigrants face developmental, acculturative, and social challenges as they grow in the host country. Significant individual differences are observed in the quality of their adaptation in the face of these challenges. The quality of their present adaptation is a

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“…Youth's capacity for resilient adaptation then also changes because all the systems at all levels of context are also changing over time. Thus, migrant youth resilience depends to a large extent on the resilient functioning of multiple systems facing challenges brought about by migration (Motti‐Stefanidi, in press).…”

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

Motti‐Stefanidi

2021

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“…Migration is a multisystem social phenomenon that presents challenges and threatens to destabilize not only the individuals migrating, but also immigrant-receiving societies, as well as immigrants’ proximal contexts, such as their neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools (Motti-Stefanidi, 2023). All these interacting systems, including immigrants and nonimmigrants, need to adapt to a new reality created by the intermingling and coexistence of people who may have very different cultural values and traditions.…”

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“…To understand the causal link between these adaptation domains, complex dynamic models, that include bidirectional influences and progressive effects within and across domains of adaptation over time, are required (Cicchetti & Rogosch, 2002; Masten & Kalstabakken, 2018; Motti-Stefanidi, 2019). For example, cascade effects, in which positive (or negative) adaptation in one domain spreads to influence adjustment in one or more other domains over time, may alter the course of development (Masten & Cicchetti, 2016), as well as the course of immigrant youths’ acculturation (Motti-Stefanidi, 2019; Motti-Stefanidi et al, 2023).…”

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Acculturation and resilience of immigrant-origin youth: Do their school experiences reflect nonimmigrants’ “native supremacy”?

Motti‐Stefanidi

2023

Dev Psychopathol

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The successful integration of immigrant-origin youth is a highly important issue for multiple stakeholders in many countries. It has important benefits both to countries of destination and countries of origin, as well as to immigrants and nonimmigrants. In this article, I examine immigrant-youth adaptation through the lens of a recently developed resilience model integrating acculturation and social psychological influences on adaptation. Who among immigrant-origin youth adapt well, academically, and socially, in the Greek school context? What is the role of acculturation in immigrant youth resilience? These questions are addressed using scientific evidence drawn from the Athena Studies of Resilient Adaptation (AStRA) project, a three-cohort, three-wave longitudinal project on immigrant-origin youth adaptation conducted in Greece, as well as from the international literature. Following an anti-racist research approach to understanding the AstRA findings, I will argue that the lived school experiences of immigrant-origin youth may be a reflection of societal-level xenophobic and anti-immigrant attitudes. Such systemic and structural racism is the key determinant of the difficulties they face in their adaptation. The findings presented reveal the need to promote an equitable and inclusive education that will be beneficial for all students promoting their well-being, and their sense of belonging to school and society.

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Direct and indirect effects of authoritative parenting and self-esteem on adolescent life satisfaction: A comparative study across varied migration statuses

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2024

Curr Psychol

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Immigrant youth resilience in the context of challenging receiving societies.

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

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

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

Acculturation and resilience of immigrant-origin youth: Do their school experiences reflect nonimmigrants’ “native supremacy”?

Direct and indirect effects of authoritative parenting and self-esteem on adolescent life satisfaction: A comparative study across varied migration statuses

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