Migration and Wellbeing

Research papers related to the ISQOLS SIG Mobility And Migration

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Wellbeing after migration depends on support

This week’s papers treat migration not as a single move, but as a web of stress, care, memory, and institutions. Across refugee health, children’s mental health, and communities altered by mobility, support systems are a recurring hinge.

For displaced people, wellbeing is tied to daily stress, support, and health access after migration.
Children’s mental health hinges on overlapping support from parents, peers, and teachers, not just migrant status.
Migration also reshapes communities and residents, from older urban adults affected by changing households to women’s self-help groups in hill villages.

Stress after arrival

Post-Migration Stressors and Health Vulnerabilities Among Afghan Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Türkiye.

Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in Türkiye describe health and social support through lived experiences marked by psychological distress.

Social stress and refugee mental health: investigating the role of interpersonal emotion regulation.

A refugee survey in Australia examines social and practical post-migration stressors, mental health symptoms, and interpersonal emotion regulation.

Evaluating mental health and psychosocial support outcomes of the Self-Efficacy and Knowledge (SEEK) community-based randomized controlled trial in lebanon during active conflict

This trial evaluates a low-resource community intervention for mental health and psychosocial wellbeing among displaced Syrian adolescent girls and young women in Lebanon.

Support around children

Family and school support systems associated with mental health in Chinese migrant and non-migrant children

The study asks whether family communication, peer relationships, and teacher support shape mental health differently for migrant and non-migrant Chinese children.

Communities reshaped by mobility

A ritual way of ageing well: a qualitative study of a comprehensive, culturally grounded ritual-based health programme for older adults in urban China

Urban migration and weakened multigenerational households frame older adults’ distress, making a culturally familiar group ritual programme relevant to ageing well.

Self-Help Groups as Instruments of Women Empowerment and Migration Control in Uttarakhand

The paper examines self-help groups as a way to strengthen women’s livelihoods and reduce rural out-migration in Uttarakhand.

The Sensory Traces of War and Migration: Memory, Space, and Identity in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina

Qualitative fieldwork in Bosnia-Herzegovina examines how war and forced migration remain embedded in memory, everyday spaces, and identity.

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