Sources of Variability: The Consequences of Violent Victimization for Diverse Immigrant Youth in Early Adulthood

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Abstract

A growing body of work documents an immigrant paradox in which foreign-born nativity is protective against a range of negative outcomes after adverse life events, including adolescent violent victimization. Though treatment within a U.S. context, premigration trauma exposure, and the migration experience itself, are known to vary by sending country, less is understood about whether immigrant resilience to adolescent violent victimization varies when foreign-born persons emigrate from certain places. The proposed study will draw from literature on victimization, stress, and the immigrant paradox to center discussion on the possible physical, social, and behavioral health consequences of adolescent violent victimization among diverse immigrant youth in early adulthood.

Author

• Julie Kuper, University of Wyoming