Addressing Other Challenges migrants' Children Face in Mexico: Coping with Adverse Realities and Circumstances

Migrants' children face challenges when returning to their parent's home country, which is usually unfamiliar to them. This qualitative study explores this phenomenon to understand more about the experiences of returnee children regarding their social-educational (re)integration and adapta...

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Published inJournal of Latinos and education Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 843 - 857
Main Authors Hernández Ángeles, Tomás, Hidalgo Avilés, Hilda, Cruz Pérez, Anakaren
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Routledge 14.03.2024
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Acculturation
acculturative stress
challenges
Children
Coping
Discrimination
Educational psychology
fears
Immigrant students
Kinship networks
Migrants
Parents & parenting
Returnees
Social networks
Spanish language
Mexico
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Summary:Migrants' children face challenges when returning to their parent's home country, which is usually unfamiliar to them. This qualitative study explores this phenomenon to understand more about the experiences of returnee children regarding their social-educational (re)integration and adaptation, the challenges they faced, and the mechanisms they have developed to overcome them. Results are discussed from the perspective of acculturative stress and social networks, identifying the struggle that returnees have to adapt and acculturate to their new home because of the lack of competence in the Spanish language and the consequences of the discrimination they suffer in the social environment, namely school and in their parents' hometowns. However, results also shed light on how returnees create social networks with classmates and family members who help them overcome these challenges, fears, and feelings of alienation.
ISSN:1534-8431
1532-771X
DOI:10.1080/15348431.2023.2187632