Remaking family life: strategies for re-establishing continuity among Congolese refugees during the family reunification process

Un double ancrage : liens familiaux et insertion sociale des enfants d’immigrés philippins en France

“…Après une certaine période de séparation, ces jeunes restés au pays partent retrouver leurs parents dans leurs pays d'accueil, et rejoignent alors les rangs de la génération 1,5. Comme le montrent les rares études existantes sur ce groupe, la réunion familiale produit souvent des tensions entre les jeunes et leurs parents (Hernandez--Albujar, 2004;Rousseau et al, 2004) Lefèvre et Filhon, 2005;Lorreyte, 1993;Simon, 2000). Un nombre important d'études qui se sont penchées sur les performances scolaires de ces jeunes et sur leur incorporation sur le marché du travail démontrent les difficultés rencontrées par certains d'entre eux en raison de discriminations liées à leur origine ethnique et sociale (Brinbaum et Kieffer, 2009;Meurs et al, 2006;Silberman et Fournier--Méarelli, 2006).…”

Parental Absence and Academic Achievement in Immigrant Students

“…Often, the process of immigration leaves the family separated, with one or several family members going to the new country to establish a home, while the remaining family members wait in the mother country before migrating (Rousseau et al, 2004). The reunion of the family may take several years after the first family member left for the new country (Rousseau et al, 2004). Once the family has been reunited, family relationships that were disengaged need to be reestablished (Gaytan et al, 2007).…”

“…Those who experience parental absence because of the immigration process may view the absence as only temporary, being a necessary step in establishing a home in the new country (Rousseau et al, 2004).…”

“…Parental absence in immigrant families may be caused for a variety of reasons. Immigrant children may experience parental absence for reasons different from native-born children, such as the serial migration of family members (Rousseau et al, 2004), or for reasons shared by nonimmigrant children, such as parental separation or divorce (Mullett & Stolberg, 2002), and parental death. Parent absence that results from the immigration process may be viewed quite differently by the children involved than parent absence due to parental separation or divorce and parental death.…”

“…Little research has isolated the immigration process as a cause for parental absence in regard to its impact on the academic achievement of the children involved (Roer-Strier, Striet, Este, Shimoni, & Clark, 2005;Rousseau, Rufagari, Bagilishya, & Measham, 2004;Smith, Lalonde, & Johnson, 2004;Suarez-Orozco, Todorova, & Louie, 2002). The majority of researchers who have examined the effects of parental absence on academic outcomes have focused on parental divorce as the cause of separation (e.g., Lamb, 1999;McLanahan & Teitler, 1999).…”