In her research, she attempts to unravel the alleged risks of immigration to child development, by focusing among others on personality characteristics, perceived discrimination, acculturation, parent-child relationships, ethnic density and receiving country comparisons. Ongoing research concerns among others an international comparative study on well-being in ethnic minority and majority youth (HBSC study), a study on internalizing problems and mental health care use in adolescent migrants, an experimental study on the extent to which ethnic discrimination evokes aggression, and a study on the early identification of ethnic minority families at risk of problem behaviours using at home observations.