AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION AMONG CHILDREN FROM THE FRAMEWORK OF MIGRATION

Migration, as often mentioned in literature, is a radical change of the rooted place. However, focusing only on psychosocial adversities and pointing the migrants as a source of these influences, unfortunately degrades the effects of migration. Despite the psychological problems that migration may lead, it also carries a potential to create opportunities, positive effects and empowerment for the migrant. However questions about these positive outcomes and therefore evidence can be neglected in research. This study aims to discuss the psychosocial effects of immigration, which either children experience indirectly or directly in their own lives, from an objective and developmental point of view. For this purpose first we introduce types of migration and define the meaning, motivation, direction and the key factors of migration in Turkey. In addition to some basic evidence of adverse psychological and physiological effects to the immigrant individual, we also covered psychological resiliency studies in order to focus on the positive adaptation process of migrants. Involvement in crime, which has been claimed as an indicator of maladaptation in migrant children, indeed arise as the challenging conditions push children out of the community, devoted a special section. In the conclusion, some concrete ideas and suggestions on the importance of thinking immigration experience for children as giving pathways to alternative psychosocial outcomes and in the wider ecological context will be cultivated