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This paper examines the gendered roles of sibling position and network‐derived social capital in Mexican and Senegalese international migration. We investigate how men's and women's migration decisions are associated with their position within the nuclear family before and after accounting for nuclear family migrant networks. Crucially, we also estimate how sibling network “effects” are gendered. We analyse 2 comparable household surveys in very distinct settings where family obligations may vary: the Mexican Migration Project (1998–2012) and the Migration between Africa and…
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Social workers all around the world work with families and family complexity in their everyday practice. In this article, we present findings from a cross-national study exploring how social workers in child welfare conceptualise ‘family’, and how they relate to ‘family’ in their practice. Data presented is taken from focus groups with twenty-eight social workers from Chile, Mexico and Norway. The findings reveal that in Chilean, Mexican, and Norwegian social work, the conceptualisation of family has expanded over time, acknowledging various family forms and displays, and an…
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From October 2013 to July 2016, over 156,000 children traveling without their guardians were apprehended at the US-Mexico border. Although these unaccompanied youth have received substantial media attention, little is known about their health and well-being. The current study implemented a concurrent, parallel mixed methods research design, whereby quantitative (survey) and qualitative (focus groups) data were collected simultaneously to explore: (a) the frequency of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, suicidal ideation, and substance use, (b) trauma exposure at pre-…
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How government agencies and non-governmental organizations address the significant increase in the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the United States-Mexico border, mainly from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, has received significant attention among both popular and scholarly audiences. Less well-examined, however, is how such groups address the arduous processes of transit migration that these young people experience prior to reaching the US-Mexico border. While many child migrants suffer forms of violence that qualify them for international protection as refugees…
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The number of youth who migrate alone to the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with the highest number of minors arriving in 2016 in the past decade. Unaccompanied minors (UMs) are separate from the refugee process and continue to arrive, despite the government’s allocation of refugees into the United States. The majority of youth crosses the border from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and many experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse during migration. Knowledge on the traumas that this hidden, although expanding, group of youth experience, as well as…
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The institutionalization is related with a deprivation of social-emotional stimulation and with alterations in the physiology of the prefrontal cortex, the electroencephalogram (EEG) and the social behavior. The aim of this study was to compare the EEG correlation during a social decision making task (Ultimatum Game) in a group of institutionalized (INST) adolescents with a never institutionalized group (NINST). The EEG correlations among prefrontal (Fp1-F3, Fp2-F4), prefronto-temporal (F3-T3, F4-T4) and prefronto-parietal (F3-P3, F4-P4) areas were recorded in 20…
Using the stories and reflections of boys and girls in Guanajuato, Mexico, this study points out how with migration, there are different ways to understand and cope with the issues that surround migration. This article notes that migrating to communities within the same state present the children with both similar and dissimilar characteristics to those that migrate out of state. This study discovered both positive and negative effects of migration on childhood. Negative effects included hate, indifference, and rebellion. Positive…
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The summer of 2014 saw an unprecedented increase in the number of children from Central America immigrating into the USA. This paper examines these events by setting the context of immigration across the USA–Mexico border, reviewing the extent and causes of the influx in immigration, and detailing the political, legal, and social work responses to the child migrants. This article contributes implications for rights-based practice with child migrants.
According to this article, while there have been improvements as a result of cash transfer programs, the level of child labor in Mexico has not decreased as expected. The researchers used Child Labor Modules to provide an estimation of child labor for children in Mexico between the ages 5 and 17. The researchers discovered that small perceived differences between opportunities costs had a significant effect on child labor. Family structure, definitions of child labor, and gender had an impact as well.
The study notes that when income levels are high, investigation…
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This article discusses the effect of international migration on the accumulation of human capital among Mexican youths aged 15–18 who are left behind. Evidence indicates the existence of a negative impact of sibling and parental migration on school attendance among young males but not on the measure of cognitive ability. Migration of extended family members has no significant effect. There is no evidence of a robust effect among females. The negative effect of sibling migration suggests that lower migration costs and differences in return to Mexican formal education between the…