The impact of physical separation from parents on the mental wellbeing of the children of migrants

Cebolla‐Boado, Héctor; Ferrer, Amparo González

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2021.1935670

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“…Cebolla Boado and González Ferrer (2021), in this special issue, provide a relevant contribution in this sense. They look at the cost in mental wellbeing that children of migrants and natives suffer as a consequence of long periods of physical separation from their parents, using a composite index of psychological wellbeing based on nonspecific psychological distress.…”

Section: Family Relationships and Subjective Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…The experience of migrants and how relational aspects define their life conditions is key for policy-makers to promote the construction of a meaningful coexistence with the host communities (OECD 2017). In this sense, Cebolla Boado and González Ferrer (2021) emphasise the relevance of migration policies related to the timing of family reunification. Policy-makers should acknowledge the cost of their decision by considering that long-lasting penalties in educational careers and integration processes might arise when migrant families are obliged to spend long periods adapting before being granted the right to reunify.…”

Section: Areas For Intervention Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants

Galasso

Impicciatore

2021

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The goal of successfully incorporating ethnic minorities represents a decisive challenge for modern societies. However, migratory background continues to negatively affect the life trajectories of migrants' descendants. 'Hard' and 'soft' barriers determine longterm inequality gaps and low intergenerational social mobility in both longstanding and more recent European immigration countries. This special issue complements the sparse findings on education, labour market outcome and wellbeing relating to immigrant offspring by providing original insight in order to individuate strategies for removing the obstacles that the descendants of migrants face. In-depth analyses have been performed for specific Southern European contexts in order to explore the specific inequality patterns that are emerging in these more recent and unexplored immigration contexts. The main findings suggest that the lower academic performances of immigrants' descendants can be raised through language-support programmes, mentoring programmes, positive role and disciplinary climate, extra-scholastic activities and parental involvement. Equality opportunities in education should support school-to-work transitions and better allocate the underutilised human capital reserves of migrants' descendants. Conversely, long-lasting penalties in educational careers and integration processes may arise when children are physically separated from their parents because of delayed family reunification.

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Section: Family Relationships and Subjective Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Areas For Intervention Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants

Galasso

Impicciatore

2021

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…There are however few exceptions; for example, the study by Dryden‐Peterson (2018), on a sample of black African immigrant children attending elementary schools in the United States reported that good family–school relationship fosters children emotional well‐being and academic success. Likewise, Kalmijn (2017), Eremenko and Bennett (2018) and Cebolla Boado and Ferrer Gonzàlez (2022) highlighted that father's absence and long‐term physical separation from parents, which is more common among immigrant families as part of a migratory project, has negative effects on immigrant children's SWB and, consequently, on their SO (Guetto et al, 2022).…”

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Subjective well‐being and school outcomes among children of immigrants and natives in Italy

Ambrosetti

Bettin

Çela

et al. 2022

Population Space and Place

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Children of immigrants are generally disadvantaged in terms of educational outcomes in most European countries and this remains true even after controlling for their socio-economic status.Factors affecting the long-term educational careers among children of immigrants and natives have been broadly investigated in the literature, although limited attention has been paid so far to the role of subjective well-being in this context.In this paper we aim to fill this gap by analyzing how subjective well-being in the school and family context is related to objective school outcomes of immigrant and native children residing in Italy, after controlling for several relevant socio-demographic factors.We use rich and unique data from the "Integration of the Second Generation" survey carried out by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) in 2015, that has not been used to analyse this relationship so far. The national representative sample includes 68,127 students interviewed in both lower and upper secondary schools. Around 47% of them are immigrant children without Italian citizenship.Our results show that subjective well-being is positively correlated with school performance, but well-being at school is much more important for immigrant students' achievements, as compared to their native peers, especially in the lower secondary school. The same result does not hold for wellbeing in the family domain.

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Migrantenfamilien

Baykara-Krumme

2022

Handbuch Familiensoziologie

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The impact of physical separation from parents on the mental wellbeing of the children of migrants

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants

Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants

Subjective well‐being and school outcomes among children of immigrants and natives in Italy

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