Children's Behavioral Agency within Families in the Context of Migration: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Migration may lead to changing power dynamics between parents and children in families. Children may change their behavior in order to exercise agency to respond to migration of family members or themselves. This systematic review seeks to understand how children exercise agency within families in the context of migration. The authors searched ten databases to collect English-written articles published in academic journals in or after 2010. The studies were coded to generate a quality indicator. 65 Articles with moderate and strong quality were included in this review, including 41 qualitative studies, 16 quantitative studies, and 8 mixed-methods studies. Children and adolescents with demographically and culturally diverse backgrounds were analyzed in these studies. The systematic review s

SUBMITTER: Deng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493537 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature