Social Inclusion of Refugee and Native Peers Among Adolescents: It is the Language that Matters!

Beißert, Hanna; Gönültaş, Seçil; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn

doi:10.1111/jora.12518

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“…One of the more salient features of foreign status is linguistic proficiency in the official language of the receiving society. Migrant children and adolescents lacking proficiency in the language of the receiving society are more prone to experiencing discrimination as well as social exclusion, particularly in school contexts (Beißert, Gönültaş, & Mulvey, 2020; Buchanan et al., 2018; Kiramba et al., 2020). The negative implications of foreign status manifest in distinct ways in cases where migrants share the same language as native‐born individuals in the receiving society.…”

Section: An Interdisciplinary Framework Of Adaptationmentioning

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An interdisciplinary framework examining culture and adaptation in migrant children and adolescents

Pérez

Murray

et al. 2021

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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With increasing rates of globalization, understanding the cultural factors that promote positive adaptation in migrant children and adolescents is vital. In prior research, acculturation and enculturation frameworks often rely on unidimensional or bidimensional conceptions of culture to study the effects of migration on child and adolescent development. However, the contemporary strategies that migrant children and adolescents utilize to navigate multicultural contexts remain undertheorized. Therefore, we advance an interdisciplinary framework that describes the factors and processes that affect migrant child and adolescent development across four contexts: global, macrosystem, microsystem, and the individual level. Additionally, conceptualizations of cultural adaptation are broadened in our framework by examining the intersections of community cultural wealth, cultural preservation, and cultural restoration. We highlight the importance of prioritizing the culture and experiential knowledge of migrant children and adolescents in the development of policy, research, and practice, to support their positive adaptation in a globalized society.

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Section: An Interdisciplinary Framework Of Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An interdisciplinary framework examining culture and adaptation in migrant children and adolescents

Pérez

Murray

et al. 2021

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…A study from Germany showed the importance of language for the social inclusion of adolescent refugees with their native peers. 25 A change made at this TAC is that all of the teachers in the camps are native speakers of Turkish and not Syrian teachers or volunteers. This in turn has increased Turkish literacy rates for refugee children.…”

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Mental health of Syrian refugee adolescents: how far have we come?

Akgül¹,

Hüsnü

Derman³

et al. 2019

Turk J Pediatr

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Among the consequences of war, its impact on the mental health of children and adolescents is one of the most significant. A previous study from our team evaluated the psychiatric symptoms of Syrian refugee adolescents living in one of Turkey's Temporary Accommodation Centers (TACs) in 2016. Findings suggested that mental health had been compromised in these teens. Since then many measures have been taken to address this problem. The aim of the current study was to reassess the mental health status of adolescents living in the same center. A total of 76 adolescents (35 female, 41 male) aged between 12-18 years (14.2 ± 0.83 years) received the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) which assessed their anxiety, depression, negative self-concept, somatization and hostility levels in addition to a Global Severity Index (GSI). Results >1.0 indicated psychopathological symptoms. All BSI sub-scores decreased from 2016 to 2019 showing significant improvement in psychopathological symptoms. The most significant change was in the GSI score which decreased from 2.15 to 0.8. For the 2019 participants a significant correlation was found between years of stay at the camp and the depression subscale. Evaluation to assess gender differences found that adolescent girls reported significantly higher scores than males in anxiety, depression, somatization and the global severity index. This study has shown that interventions designed to tackle post-traumatic stress symptomology may have been effective in improving the mental health status of these teens and can provide a roadmap for tackling existing issues in vulnerable conditions. Additionally, females are under higher risk for psychopathology so gender targeted interventions may specifically be necessary to deal with such issues.

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“…Over a third of the studies published, this last decade relies on multiple informants (self-reports, parent, peer, teacher, or school reports), and includes in the design an assessment of multiculturalism ideology at national and school levels (e.g., Brown & Chu, 2012;Sam, 2018), and nonimmigrants' attitudes toward outgroups or immigrants and refugees in particular (e.g., Beißert, G€ on€ ultas ß, & Mulvey, 2020;Gr€ utter & Tropp, 2018). Data are often analyzed through the use of multilevel models to account for the nestedness of individuals in schools, communities, or countries, and to examine the effect of higher-level contextual variables on immigrant youth adaptation (e.g., Leventhal & Shuey, 2014;Zimmerman & Farrell, 2017).…”

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Immigrant Youth Resilience: Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Developments, and Future Directions

Motti‐Stefanidi¹,

Pavlopoulos²,

2021

J of Research on Adolesc

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Resilient adaptation among immigrant youth provides the foundation for healthy and productive adult lives. Great diversity is observed in their adaptation. This diversity has been studied during the past decade from different angles and intellectual traditions. However, the results are disconnected. In this paper, first, we present a resilience conceptual model for understanding immigrant youth adaptation. We argue that its concepts and principles allow us to best pull together what is known and discover what is still unknown. Together with narrower topic‐specific conceptual models, it can guide the formulation of hypotheses regarding immigrant youth resilience. Second, we examine comparatively, through the lens of this conceptual model, results of a content analysis on the abstracts of studies on individual differences in immigrant youth adaptation, conducted during the past decade in North American and European countries. Finally, we discuss the meaning of acculturation‐related terms which are often used in an inconsistent way.

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Social Inclusion of Refugee and Native Peers Among Adolescents: It is the Language that Matters!

Cited by 31 publications

References 68 publications

An interdisciplinary framework examining culture and adaptation in migrant children and adolescents

An interdisciplinary framework examining culture and adaptation in migrant children and adolescents

Mental health of Syrian refugee adolescents: how far have we come?

Immigrant Youth Resilience: Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Developments, and Future Directions

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