Research Gap Articles
Immigration and refugee situation in the world is characterized with increased perspectives on the violation of individual rights and privileges. In this regard, many children are separated from their parents at the border, hence making their situation more challenging and misconstrued. The dissertation focused on this subject to underscore the impacts of this treatment on the immigrant children’s mental health. However, the gap is on the perception, feelings, and situations of the mothers regarding their children after separation. Tulli et al. (2020) identified the barrier on the perspectives of the mothers. This is crucial as it forms the foundation of structured and relational elements of mental health among immigrants, which was not adequately addressed in the dissertation study.
Moreover, the context is connected to historical understanding of how the first generation immigrants were impacted through the acceleration and mental health. These scenarios are described in Klein et al. (2020) detailing how the mental health and acculturation is significant framework in understanding mental health through culture. This is a gap that can be explored in the dissertation but not extensively highlighted. Klein posited that the first generation immigrants experienced instances of mental health, which were significant in impacting their children and the future generations. This is scientific and empirical in understanding the prevalence and other discourses.
The most recent immigration challenge is between the Mexican immigrants and the U.S. border officials. It included the serration of children from their parents, especially mothers. However, MacLean (2020) established that there are inconsistencies in characterization of mental health among the abandoned or separated children at the U.S. border. The gap is on the characterization of mental health and how it implies to the immigrant children at the U.S. Mexico border.
References
Klein, E. M., Müller, K. W., Wölfling, K., Dreier, M., Ernst, M., & Beutel, M. E. (2020). The relationship between acculturation and mental health of 1st generation immigrant youth in a representative school survey: does gender matter?. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 14(1), 1-10.
MacLean, S. A., Agyeman, P. O., Walther, J., Singer, E. K., Baranowski, K. A., & Katz, C. L. (2020). Characterization of the mental health of immigrant children separated from their mothers at the US–Mexico border. Psychiatry research, 286, 112555.
Tulli, M., Salami, B., Begashaw, L., Meherali, S., Yohani, S., & Hegadoren, K. (2020). Immigrant mothers’ perspectives of barriers and facilitators in accessing mental health care for their children. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 31(6), 598-605.
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