Cebotari Victor, Siegel Melissa, Mazzucato Valentina
UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, Piazza SS. Annunziata, 12, 50122 Florence, Italy.
2Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University, Boschstraat 24, 6211 AX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Comp Migr Stud. 2018;6(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s40878-017-0068-9. Epub 2018 Feb 8.
There is scarce empirical evidence on the relation between migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia-two post-Soviet countries with large out-migration flows in the region. This study uses nationally representative data collected in 2011-2012 in Moldova ( = 1601) and Georgia ( = 1193) to investigate how children's health associates with five transnational characteristics: migrant and return-migrant household types, parental migration and parental divorce, maternal and/or paternal migration and caregiver's identity, the duration of migration, and remittances. Findings show that, regardless of the transnational family setting, children of migrants have overall positive or no differing health compared to children in non-migrant households. However, significant gender differences are found in both countries. More often than not, Moldovan and Georgian girls are more at risk of having poorer health when living transnationally. These results add nuance to a field of research that has mainly emphasized negative outcomes for children in transnational care.
在摩尔多瓦和格鲁吉亚这两个后苏联国家，向外移民流动规模较大，关于移民与儿童健康之间的关系，几乎没有实证证据。本研究使用2011年至2012年在摩尔多瓦（n = 1601）和格鲁吉亚（n = 1193）收集的具有全国代表性的数据，调查儿童健康如何与五个跨国特征相关联：移民家庭和返乡移民家庭类型、父母移民和父母离异、母亲和/或父亲移民以及照料者身份、移民持续时间和汇款。研究结果表明，无论跨国家庭环境如何，与非移民家庭的儿童相比，移民家庭的儿童总体健康状况良好或没有差异。然而，两国都发现了显著的性别差异。摩尔多瓦和格鲁吉亚的女孩在跨国生活时，往往更有可能面临健康状况较差的风险。这些结果为一个主要强调跨国照料中儿童负面结果的研究领域增添了细微差别。
