National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Carlos Albizu University at Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA.
J Adolesc. 2018 Jan;62:218-221. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.09.012. Epub 2017 Oct 12.
Immigrant youth are and will continue to be a diverse and important part of Western nations. In this context, the study of immigrant youth adaptation has burgeoned. The papers of this special section represent a shift from a deficit-based to a strength-based approach to immigrant youth. They focus on unpacking the immigrant paradox, often based on longitudinal, multilevel data. In this commentary, we discuss how the research findings and themes that emerge from these papers contribute to our understanding of the processes of development and acculturation, of the importance of individual differences and the role of context for immigrant youth adaptation. These studies show that we have come a long way … but that we still have a long way to go.
移民青年现在是，而且将来也会一直是西方国家多元化和重要的一部分。在这种背景下，移民青年适应问题的研究蓬勃发展。本期特刊中的论文代表了从基于缺陷的方法向基于优势的方法转变，重点是对移民悖论进行剖析，其依据通常是纵向的多层次数据。在这篇评论中，我们讨论了这些论文中的研究结果和主题如何有助于我们理解发展和文化适应的过程，以及个体差异的重要性和移民青年适应的背景作用。这些研究表明，我们已经取得了很大的进展……但我们还有很长的路要走。
