Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Adolescents focuses on the challenges and issues that immigrant adolescents face during the course of migration and in the host countries. Adolescence is a critical period of transition from childhood into adulthood, during which young children aged 10–19 years experience substantial physical, psychological, social, and emotional changes. Immigration is a critical issue for adolescent development, as migration continues at an increased pace worldwide. Immigrant adolescents are a heterogeneous population, with a diverse and variable socioeconomic status, education, and level of social support. Similarly to their counterparts in any advanced Western nation, immigrant adolescents face a multitude of challenges, due to their exposure or interactions with factors such as social inequities, political crises, social media, and climate change. In addition, immigrant adolescents wrestle with a number of unique challenges, such as growing up in communities that are racially and culturally marginalized from the broader Western host society, and, thus, they must confront the social inequities tied to their identities as an immigrant. These experiences and the outcomes of these challenges are related, affecting immigrant adolescents in various ways, depending on their gender, class, religion, etc. For immigrant adolescents, specific needs are warranted to achieve healthy behaviors that adequately navigate their cultural identities, migration contexts, family expectations, and emerging attitudes developed within the migration context. The timely compilation of original research in this issue is aimed at understanding the physical, social and psychological challenges that affect immigrant adolescent development, and how, as researchers, clinicians and policymakers, we can help them find ways to enhance their capacity to build the resilience desired to integrate into the new society successfully.

Dr. Salima Meherali
Dr. Zohra S. Lassi
Guest Editors

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• Migration
• Adolescents
• Marginalization
• Social inequities
• Health and well-being (not limited to any particular issue)