title: Resilience of African migrants: An integrative review.
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.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia.
authors.forename: Olutoyin
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Babatunde-Sowole
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia.
authors.forename: Tamara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Power
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia.|b Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University , Oxford , UK.
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.affiliation: c Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia.|d Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing , Baltimore , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Patricia M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.affiliation: c Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: DiGiacomo
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D044383:Black People / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*