?Globalization has led to a significant increase in migration. One of the most vexing social problems in the U.S. is immigration and I will attempt to display their risks for development of mental health among immigrant children. Immigration is a multifaceted social phenomenon whose process thread through most micro and macro aspects of the fabric of human experience (Abush-Kirsh, T. 2002). The number of international migrants in the world increased by 21 million between 1990 and 2000, a 14 percent increase, resulting in 175 million people living in a country outside their birth (Abush-Kirsh, T. 2002). The United States holds the largest stock of immigrants and is the source of the largest share of remittances. Mexicans are by far the largest immigrant group in the United States, and are estimated to amount to approximately 15 percent of Mexico's working age population (Crawford-Brown, C. & Rattray, J. M. 2002). Immigrants chose to come for various reasons, such as to live in freedom, to practice their religion freely, to escape poverty or oppression, and to make better lives for themselves and their children. Migration and resettlement inevitably result in the loss of a sense of home and belonging that is critical to achieving an optimal level of health and well-being for children. Migration from Latin America to North America can take four forms, some of which are unique to Mexico and will allow for immigrants to remain involved in the development of their country of origin: (1) Commonly, parents will migrate for up to 6 months at a time to work in the host/receiving country (seasonal migration); (2) Parents will migrate either singly or together with the intention of sending for the rest of their family at a later date (serial migration); (3) Parents will migrate for a defined time or indefinitely but have no intention of having their children live in the overseas country (parental migration); (4) Parents will migrate with the...