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Resilience factors in unaccompanied minor refugees with asylum seeking status
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The study about resilience factors in UASC is a topic that has been gaining a bit more relevance during the past years but still, there aren’t many studies developed in this field. Because of this, a systematic review of the literature was conducted in order to understand what research has been done so far regarding this theme.
Thus, the goals of this review are to synthesize the current knowledge about the identified psychosocial resilience factors and to understand their impact in the URM lives.
As a research method, B-On database was used with the following Boolean phrase: (“unaccompanied asylum seeking children or unaccompanied minors or unaccompanied children or separated children seeking asylum” [TI]) and (“protective factors or resilience or adaptation or promotive factors or strengths or resiliency or coping” [TI]) and (“mental health” [optional]).
After selecting the options: full text, analyzed by pairs, scientific journals and time period 01/2010-current, there were in total 21 results from which, after the application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 7 were selected.
The main conclusions showed that: the literature in this field is scarce, most of the articles are systematic reviews of the literature or qualitative studies where semi-structured interviews were used to collect data.
The resilience factors are mainly divided into individual, relationships and context/environment. The main identified factors that seem to play an important role are: religion, meaningful and trustworthy relationships, focus on education, safety and acculturation process.
It was observed that most studies were conducted outside of a shelter's environment and when the minors were already adults which shows the difficulty and complexity of the process of conducting this type of studies.
As there is a need to further investigate which factors contribute to the promotion of resilience in UMRs, an empiric study was designed with the objective of analyzing which are the psychosocial factors associated to resilience, in unaccompanied refugee minors, who are in a refugee shelter and waiting for their asylum-seeking status. The main goal of the study was to understand which psychosocial factors contribute to the promotion of resilience in unaccompanied minors, from the experience and knowledge of the professionals who work with them. The sample consisted of X professionals who work in the Hope for Children CRC Policy center shelter in Nicosia, with different backgrounds and roles, to whom a semi structured interview was conducted. The main domains that the questions intended to evaluate were: challenges faced by the minors, coping strategies, personal skills and characteristics, support and role model figures, motivation, mental health and adjustment in society. The results of the study showed that relationships, individual characteristics and skills, culture and care arrangements play a major role as factors that contribute to the resilience of URMs.
As there is a need to further investigate which factors contribute to the promotion of resilience in UMRs, an empiric study was designed with the objective of analyzing which are the psychosocial factors associated to resilience, in unaccompanied refugee minors, who are in a refugee shelter and waiting for their asylum-seeking status. The main goal of the study was to understand which psychosocial factors contribute to the promotion of resilience in unaccompanied minors, from the experience and knowledge of the professionals who work with them. The sample consisted of X professionals who work in the Hope for Children CRC Policy center shelter in Nicosia, with different backgrounds and roles, to whom a semi structured interview was conducted. The main domains that the questions intended to evaluate were: challenges faced by the minors, coping strategies, personal skills and characteristics, support and role model figures, motivation, mental health and adjustment in society. The results of the study showed that relationships, individual characteristics and skills, culture and care arrangements play a major role as factors that contribute to the resilience of URMs.
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Unaccompanied minors Asylum seekers Resilience Mental health