Migration and Migrants in the United States

Levesque, Christopher; DeWaard, Jack

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“…For many countries, the growing presence of migrant and refugee children and their families constitutes one of the most noticeable changes in the demographic and social landscape. Globally, over half of today's migrants and refugees are under the age of 18 (UNHCR, 2019), and there are over 2.5 million migrant and refugee children living in the United States alone (Levesque, 2021). Many migrant and refugee children experience significant adversity prior to, during, and after immigration (Perreira & Ornelas, 2013), and the extant literature examining the psychological and neurobiological correlates of exposure to adversity sheds light on potential behavioral and neurobiological consequences of migration‐related experiences for children across development (Blackmore et al., 2020; MacLean et al., 2020).…”

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Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy

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Kribakaran

Odriozola

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Developmental Psychobiology

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Children make up over half of the world's migrants and refugees and face a multitude of traumatic experiences prior to, during, and following migration. Here, we focus on migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States and review trauma related to migration, as well as its implications for the mental health of migrant and refugee children. We then draw upon the early adversity literature to highlight potential behavioral and neurobiological sequalae of migration‐related trauma exposure, focusing on attachment, emotion regulation, and fear learning and extinction as transdiagnostic mechanisms underlying the development of internalizing and externalizing symptomatology following early‐life adversity. This review underscores the need for interdisciplinary efforts to both mitigate the effects of trauma faced by migrant and refugee youth emigrating from Mexico and Central America and, of primary importance, to prevent child exposure to trauma in the context of migration. Thus, we conclude by outlining policy recommendations aimed at improving the mental health of migrant and refugee youth.

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Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy

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Kribakaran

Odriozola

et al. 2021

Developmental Psychobiology

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The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century

Maharjan,

del Valle,

Erulkar

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International Migration Review

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For this special issue of the International Migration Review, we develop and provide a comprehensive organizing framework, the Migration Intersections Grid (MIG), to inform and guide migration research in and through the remainder of the twenty-first century. We motivate our work by conducting a high-level scoping review of summaries and syntheses of different directions of travel in migration research over time. Informed by these results, we then identify and describe 12 components that constitute the MIG, which, as we later discuss, is an interactive intersectional organizing framework. Finally, we illustrate the MIG's interactive intersectional nature by applying it to several areas of migration research where a comprehensive organizing framework of this sort is needed to address existing and emerging issues and questions now and in the coming decades.

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Migration and Migrants in the United States

Cited by 2 publications

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Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy

Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy

The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century

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