Abstract
Previous studies on unaccompanied migrant minors have pointed out the high risk of suffering victimization during the migration process and the important consequences of this, focusing mainly on internalizing problems. This review explores the relationship between victimization and externalizing and antisocial problems in unaccompanied foreign minors settled in Europe, an area less studied. The results of the fourteen studies included in the review point to a high prevalence of victimization, including the post-migration phase, a moderate presence of behavioral problems, which tend to become chronic, and heterogeneous results regarding the global relationship between both aspects. Limitations in the evaluation procedures associated with self-report measures, great diversity of the samples used, and not differentiating between migratory phases may influence such heterogeneity. It is argued that post-migration victimization, in terms of social marginalization, together with deficient care for effective integration in host countries, become risk factors for the development of externalizing problems and antisocial behaviors.
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