This paper focuses on how migrant youth in Melbourne with experience of direct or indirect migration negotiate crosscultural engagements and tensions between family, community and the greater society in which they are supposed to participate as political subjects. It examines whether the meaning and interpretation of citizenship in Australia allows migrant youth to act as full and active citize...

Latino youth in a low-income urban community are at high risk of exposure to violence. Given an accumulation of factors before, during, and following migration, immigrant youth may be at increased risk of exposure to violence and other relevant stressors (e.g., acculturation stress, language proficiency, acculturation/enculturation, and parental separations). Utilizing a short-term longitudinal...

This collective volume is a result of the activities implemented by former IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion Network) Standing Committee on Migrant Families, Children Youth, between 2014 2019. The publication starts with idea that “migration fundamentally family affair”, although specific research did not emerge until 1980s. authors are aware urgent need for migr...

My suggestions for future priorities in research on children and migrant youth reflect the points made in my comments on the coverage and content of the two review papers. They start with the need for clarity in definition of the concepts and areas of interest, before turning to how best to proceed to capture core dimensions of well-being for children and youth affected by migration, and point ...