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January 27, 2026
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School Success for Migrant and Refugee Children: A Systematic Literature Review

Publicated to: Sage Open. 15 (2): 21582440251330126- - 2025-04-01 15(2), DOI: 10.1177/21582440251330126

Authors:

Aiello, Emilia; Chiappelli, Tiziana; di Grigoli, Antonio; Mancaniello, Maria Rita; Mara, Liviu-Catalin; Sorde Marti, Teresa
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Affiliations

Univ Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Florence, Florence, Italy - Author
Univ Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Siena, Siena, Italy - Author
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Abstract

In less than a decade, conflicts have driven two massive waves of refugees to the European Union, mainly from Syria and Ukraine but not only. Many of these refugees are children whose education has been disrupted. This article aims to identify the elements that foster school success for migrant and refugee children in their host societies. To investigate this, we conducted a systematic review following the PRISMA statement, focusing on three databases: Elsevier's Scopus (R), Clarivate's (TM) Social Sciences Citation Index (TM), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (TM). Our search yielded 651 articles, with no restriction on publication date. After a rigorous inclusion and exclusion process conducted independently by different researchers, 38 articles related to the education of refugee and migrant children and families were fully screened. Ultimately, 30 articles were included in the review, and their methodological quality was assessed independently by two researchers. The analysis, conducted deductively, highlights the importance of establishing interactive learning environments for students, involving the community in the educational process, and designing effective training for teachers and other professionals to manage the educational trajectories of these young people. In the final section, we discuss the limitations of this study and suggest areas for further exploration.
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Keywords

Academic-successCommunityCommunity participationDiversityEducationEducational successFamiliesGatheringsInteractive learning environmentsInvolvementMigrantReduced inequalitiesRefugee childrenStudentsViewsVoices

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal SAGE Open due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 56/273, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 14.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 14 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 5.

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/742261
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries, with a probability of 77% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Italy.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (AIELLO, MARIA EMILIA) .

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Awards linked to the item

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The present study was conducted within the framework of the H2020 REFUGE-ED Effective practices in education, mental health and psychosocial support for the integration of refugee children (2021-2023). This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 101004717. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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