Yao Lu|Qian He|Jeanne Brooks?Gunn
Diverse Experience of Immigrant Children: How Do Separation and Reunification Shape Their Development?
Columbia University|University of Wisconsin–Madison|Columbia University
although many immigrant children united states arrive parents notable proportion first separated later reunited parents experiences separation reunification shape wellbeing immigrant children data national survey legal adult immigrants families new immigrant survey 2003 2004 academic achievement age 612 n 876 psychosocial wellbeing age 617 n 1084 results indicated immigrant children separated parents exhibited poorer literacy higher risk emotional behavioral problems migrated parents protracted period separation previous undocumented status parents amplified disadvantages experienced children