TY - JOUR
T1 - Resilience of African migrants
T2 - An integrative review
AU - Babatunde-Sowole, Olutoyin
AU - Power, Tamara
AU - Jackson, Debra
AU - Davidson, Patricia M.
AU - DiGiacomo, Michelle
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - African migrant women represent a rapidly growing cohort of new arrivals in many countries. Many of these women demonstrate strength and resilience throughout the stressful migration process. In this integrative review, we explore the literature on African migrants' resilience using an ecological framework. Nine peer-reviewed journal articles and six grey literature documents were reviewed. Key internal and external factors in achieving resilience were identified, discussed, and diagrammatically represented using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Framework under micro-, meso-, exo-, and macro-levels. Our findings show that the capacity for resilience demonstrated during migration could have implications for policy and practice.
AB - African migrant women represent a rapidly growing cohort of new arrivals in many countries. Many of these women demonstrate strength and resilience throughout the stressful migration process. In this integrative review, we explore the literature on African migrants' resilience using an ecological framework. Nine peer-reviewed journal articles and six grey literature documents were reviewed. Key internal and external factors in achieving resilience were identified, discussed, and diagrammatically represented using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Framework under micro-, meso-, exo-, and macro-levels. Our findings show that the capacity for resilience demonstrated during migration could have implications for policy and practice.
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U2 - 10.1080/07399332.2016.1158263
DO - 10.1080/07399332.2016.1158263
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26930120
AN - SCOPUS:84962086198
VL - 37
SP - 946
EP - 963
JO - Issues in Health Care of Women
JF - Issues in Health Care of Women
SN - 0739-9332
IS - 9
ER -