[Adolescence and migration: an age of interbreeding].
The migrant adolescent can be looked at as a "hybrid", mixed race individual, who has to be cared for taking into account his migration journey. As a developing person, who is entangled between filiation, affiliation and migration, he needs to be approached as a cosmopolitan individual struggling with the construction of his identity and a sense of multiple belongings. This is why any health care provider must comprehend such situations within a complex network of stakeholders working in a non exclusive way, so to propose to the adolescent a complementary care which will enable him to find his own way in the world, even if he has not received parental support, such as in the case of non accompanied minors.
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D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D000367:Age Factors; D003144:Communication Barriers; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic / Q000502:physiology; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012933:Social Identification