Health Care for Women International
Volume 37, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 946-963

Resilience of African migrants: An integrative review (Review)

Babatunde-Sowole O.* , Power T. , Jackson D. , Davidson P.M. , DiGiacomo M.
  • a Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • b Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • c Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • d Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, United States
  • e Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstract

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. © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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Index Keywords

human Stress, Psychological mental stress coping behavior Adaptation, Psychological ecosystem ethnology Humans migrant psychology Black person African Continental Ancestry Group male Acculturation Socioeconomic Factors female socioeconomics self concept cultural factor Resilience, Psychological psychological resilience migration Transients and Migrants
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962086198&doi=10.1080%2f07399332.2016.1158263&partnerID=40&md5=3770e3db78853971cb8b4e1d14af929a
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2016.1158263
ISSN: 07399332
Cited by: 4
Original Language: English