How Schools Can Promote Healthy Development for Newly Arrived Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents: Research Priorities

McNeely, Clea; Morland, Lyn; Doty, S. Benjamin; Meschke, Laurie L.; Awad, Summer; Ḥusain, Alt̤āf; Nashwan, Ayat

doi:10.1111/josh.12477

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“…The results also indicated that employed refugees had higher scores for problem solving, and unemployed refugees had higher scores for seeking social support. Having a job is considered an essential financial resource that determines the refugee economic status and enables them to meet their basic needs relating to daily living, health, and education expenses (McNeely et al, 2017; Pfortmueller et al, 2016). A study conducted among Soviet Jewish refugees revealed that employed refugees reported the highest levels of income, acculturation, comfort speaking English, and life satisfaction (Vinokurov, Birman, & Trickett, 2000).…”

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“…Through immigration, refugees experience many stressful and traumatic situations prior to, during, and after transfer. They face family disturbances, the loss of close relatives, unsafe situations, physical and sexual abuse, bombing, arrest, and torture (Al-Smadi et al, 2017; McNeely et al, 2017; Stewart, Simich, Shizha, Makumbe, & Makwarimba, 2012). Refugees may also experience states of social exclusion or discrimination after migration, which are caused by their exclusion from the social system, lack of social status, increased rates of unemployment, and financial difficulties associated with low levels of services and lack of social containment (Araya, Chotai, Komproe, & deJong, 2011; Gladden, 2012; Henry, 2012; Tippens, 2016).…”

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Coping Strategies Used by Syrian Refugees in Jordan

2017

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This study examined the coping strategies used by Syrian refugees in Jordan in relation to their demographics. A cross-sectional correlational study was conducted with a convenient sample of 550 Syrian refugees. Out of all the study participants, 88% reported seeking social support, 64.5% reported using avoidance, and 39.5% reported using problem solving. Participants who were male, single, and younger, and who had a higher education and a higher total income were satisfied with their income, were employed and free of chronic illnesses, and had higher problem-solving scores. Higher social support-seeking scores were associated with being female, older, and widowed; having a lower education and lower total income; being dissatisfied with their income; being nonemployed; and having chronic illnesses. A number of significant predictors were identified for each coping strategy. The results of this study could be used to formulate programs and develop services regarding the stressors encountered by Syrian refugees and their coping strategies.

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Coping Strategies Used by Syrian Refugees in Jordan

2017

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“…Schools maintain an indispensable role for educating migrant students and reducing achievement disparities. 17 While distance learning may be accessible for some students, limited technological proficiency among refugee families poses a barrier to remote schooling. 13 The isolating conditions created by COVID-19 may have devastating impacts on pediatric refugee health and development.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on Resettled Refugees

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Hauck

2021

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice

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Synopsis Refugees are among the world’s most vulnerable people, and COVID-19 presents novel threats to their well-being. Suspension of resettlement prolongs persecution for those accepted but not yet relocated to a host country and delays family reunification. For new arrivals, pandemic-related modifications to resettlement services impair smooth transitions. Refugees are additionally more vulnerable to economic hardship, COVID-19 infection, and mental illness exacerbations. Communication barriers make telehealth access uniquely difficult, and children lose the school environment that is essential for their adaptation in a new country. Providers can mitigate pandemic-related harms by assessing barriers, disseminating information, and advocating for inclusive policies.

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“…The second form of youth action to unpack trapped mobility is related to social and cultural agency. It has been suggested that youth work should stretch from providing immediate aid to training courses and capacity building of displaced youth and provide social rights education to refugees and migrants (McNeely et al 2017;Plener et al 2017).…”

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Trapped Mobility: a theoretical framework and literature review focusing on displaced youth at the borders between the Global South and Global North

Marcu

2021

Children's Geographies

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This article introduces the concept of 'trapped mobility' as a way of analyzing the complexity of the lives of displaced young people at the borders between the Global South and Global North. 'Trapped mobility' results from state policies, for containing immigration and mobility at borders around the world and their impact on the experiences of displaced youth. The article's contribution is to explore this concept both as a way of understanding (im)mobility and as an intersection between power structures and the experiences of trapped youth. Drawing on the notion of 'being misled', I show how 'entrapment' occurs and how borders are used to construct 'trapped mobility'. The paper also synthesizes displaced young people's responses as a means of unpacking trapped mobility. The conclusions provide a deeper understanding of the logic of youth mobility and advance the theoretical comprehension of the new geographies of young people at borders.

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How Schools Can Promote Healthy Development for Newly Arrived Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents: Research Priorities

Cited by 30 publications

References 42 publications

Coping Strategies Used by Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Coping Strategies Used by Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Impact of COVID-19 on Resettled Refugees

Trapped Mobility: a theoretical framework and literature review focusing on displaced youth at the borders between the Global South and Global North

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