A Risk and Resilience Perspective on Unaccompanied Refugee Minors

Autor/inn/en	Carlson, Bonnie E.; Cacciatore, Joanne; Klimek, Barbara
Titel	A Risk and Resilience Perspective on Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
Quelle	In: Social Work, 57 (2012) 3, S.259-269 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-8046
DOI	10.1093/sw/sws003
Schlagwörter	Refugees; Personality Traits; Cultural Differences; Foreign Countries; Coping; Social Work; Resilience (Psychology); Risk; Trauma; Case Studies; Adolescents; Children; Caseworkers; Religion; Social Networks; War; Guidelines; Adjustment (to Environment) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Flüchtling; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Kultureller Unterschied; Ausland; Bewältigung; Soziale Arbeit; Risiko; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Child; Kind; Kinder; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Krieg; Richtlinien
Abstract	In the United States, unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) are a diverse and extremely vulnerable group served by social workers about whom there is little research. URMs enter the United States from many lands without parents or kin, often having experienced war and other traumatic events. Using a risk and resilience framework, we summarize the research on URMs, illustrating the challenges and issues with a case study of a resilient Lost Boy from Sudan who became a social worker. We discuss strengths, coping strategies, and resilience, exploring the ways in which many URMs are able to effectively meet the challenge of adapting to a new country and culture, thriving despite the extreme adversity they have experienced, as well as sources of resilience within URMs that have allowed them to adapt and even thrive in a vastly different cultural environment despite exposure to multiple risks. These sources of resilience include positive outlook, use of healthy coping mechanisms and religiosity, and connectedness to prosocial organizations. We conclude with recommendations for social work research to better understand the nature of risk and resilience among URMs. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10