Let's Grow: Toward Culturally Sensitive Pubertal Research Practices with Migrant Adolescents.

Migrant children and adolescents face diverse compounding challenges. Though migration experiences are varied, migration and resettlement-related challenges can span years to decades and include traumatic stress, instability, uncertainty, and socioeconomic precariousness. For migrant children and adolescents, puberty unfolds within a developmental ecology characterized by multiple, intersecting stressors that may influence the biological trajectory of pubertal development and the psychosocial experience of this transition. In this commentary, we briefly show why researchers studying puberty should be considering migrant children and adolescents who experience precarity and severity in traumatic stressors, and we provide salient recommendations to improve the measurement and study of puberty in migrant adolescent populations.