Artifact #5: Migration Factors in West Africa Immigrant Parents' Perceptions of their Children's Neighborhood Safety

The authors of this article were Andrew Rasmussen, Aïcha Cissé, Ying Han, and Sonia Roubeni who explored how immigrant parents perceive their childrens safety in an new country. In fact, the authors found that African immigrants scored their children's safety as the highest importance unpon immigration. Other things such as poltical distress affect immigration but again safety was the first priority. They also found that parents found their children's safety the highest upon intial seperation from their fathers. The reasoning may have been caused by parents arriving first to gain some wealth and housing before their family comes to the US. Parents found school was the safest place for their children. However, when playing outside in an playground they found that parents though their children were sometimes safe, not always unlike the school enviornment. It is definetly an interesting take on how parents immigrate and what topics are most important to them and their families.