Deng Zihong, Xing Jianli, Katz Ilan, Li Bingqin
Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia.
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR China.
Adolesc Res Rev. 2022;7(1):1-61. doi: 10.1007/s40894-021-00175-0. Epub 2021 Oct 6.
Migration may lead to changing power dynamics between parents and children in families. Children may change their behavior in order to exercise agency to respond to migration of family members or themselves. This systematic review seeks to understand how children exercise agency within families in the context of migration. The authors searched ten databases to collect English-written articles published in academic journals in or after 2010. The studies were coded to generate a quality indicator. 65 Articles with moderate and strong quality were included in this review, including 41 qualitative studies, 16 quantitative studies, and 8 mixed-methods studies. Children and adolescents with demographically and culturally diverse backgrounds were analyzed in these studies. The systematic review shows that children have different levels of behavioral agency in the migration decision-making process; they also exercise agency in different aspects of family life. For example, left-behind children exercise agency in care provision and information nondisclosure, and migrant children in media and language brokering. Children's behavioral agency is place-specific. Adults working with children need to pay more attention to children's behavioral agency in order to support children's healthy development and facilitate their adaptation in the context of migration.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40894-021-00175-0.
移民可能导致家庭中父母与子女之间权力动态的变化。子女可能会改变自己的行为，以便行使自主权来应对家庭成员的移民或自身的移民情况。本系统综述旨在了解在移民背景下，子女如何在家庭中行使自主权。作者检索了十个数据库，以收集2010年及之后发表在学术期刊上的英文文章。对这些研究进行编码以生成质量指标。本综述纳入了65篇质量中等及较高的文章，包括41篇定性研究、16篇定量研究和8篇混合方法研究。这些研究分析了具有不同人口统计学和文化背景的儿童和青少年。系统综述表明，儿童在移民决策过程中具有不同程度的行为自主权；他们也在家庭生活的不同方面行使自主权。例如，留守儿童在照顾和信息保密方面行使自主权，而流动儿童在媒体和语言中介方面行使自主权。儿童的行为自主权因地点而异。与儿童打交道的成年人需要更加关注儿童的行为自主权，以支持儿童的健康发展，并促进他们在移民背景下的适应。
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