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2-072 - Migration and Immigration, Acculturation and Related Stress: Influence on Children’s Wellbeing

Fri, March 22, 10:00 to 11:30am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 326

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Migration and immigration is a rising global phenomenon. The number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015 (World Bank, 2018). In the US, the immigrant population comprises more than 15% of the US population (ACS, 2016). However, the impact of this global movement on families and children across different populations are not well understood. Migration and immigration comprises of many different forms (i.e., one parent moves for work, whole family moves together), and groups may adjustment differently to a new country and culture.

Guided by an ecological framework, this symposium presents four studies (3 from the US, 1 from Nepal) that examine the migration and immigration experience (e.g., types of moves, racial group, acculturation adaptation, discrimination experience) and its influence on children’s emotional wellbeing across five racial and ethnic groups.

Paper 1 examines the association between immigration-related stressors and families’ well-being in Bangladeshi communities. Paper 2 examines the links between parental experiences of discrimination and child well-being, by testing a potential indirect link via parenting practices, in Mexican American and Dominican American families. Paper 3 examines the influence of parental cultural adaptation on families’ emotional wellbeing in Afro-Carribeans. Paper 4 presents patterns and mechanisms of labor migration and its impact on left behind caregivers’ and children’s emotional wellbeing in rural Nepal.

These four papers demonstrate the importance of systematically studying impacts of migration on families and children across varied contexts. Findings highlight the mechanisms for migration and child wellbeing and have important implications for developing culturally-competent interventions.

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