*Strengths and Limitations*

The study involved highly skilled migrant participants who lived in South Australia but originated from different countries in Africa. The selection of this specific group of migrants enabled the researchers to explore the lived experience of this specific population from a resilience stance. The sampling approach and the use of qualitative method meant that research participants included those who were highly skilled (from particular different professional backgrounds providing snapshot of experiences from different workplaces), had self-initiated migration to Australia, could speak proficient English and were actively engaged in community groups or found via a snowball approach. This resulted in data that was rich and enabled deep understanding of individual resettlement stories. As such, the paper contributes to the body of knowledge regarding significant protective factors that mitigate the adversities of migration as it focused on identified mechanisms and sources of resilience for skilled African migrants in Australia.

However, interviewing people who are already connected to groups and the snowballing approach (which relies on social networks and is therefore not a random sampling approach) may have resulted in missing the perspectives of less connected people. Likewise, the scope of our research did not extend to views of the broader South Australian community, which would have given further insight into alternative perspectives of settlement and resilience.

#### **5. Conclusions**

The findings demonstrate that despite challenges experienced in resettling in Australia, skilled African migrants' resilience, ambition and determination were significant enablers to a healthy resettlement, contributing effectively to socio-ecological, economic and cultural expectations, and subsequently meeting most of their own migration intentions. These findings suggest that resilience factors identified in the study are key elements of resettlement. These include personal qualities, education and skills, positive attitudes, family ties, religious and cultural values, communities of attachment, and social connectedness. This study highlights the ways in which resilience is enacted among African migrants and brings to light their capability in facing migration challenges and effectively contributing to the Australian economy, and to social and cultural structures. The importance of African migrants' resilience and Afrocentricity to the subsequent welfare and healthy resettlement of their families into a new culture, and indeed the benefits to the new communities [53,54], cannot be overemphasised. The study provides significant information that can be used to inform knowledge about a healthy resettlement of groups of new migrants, applicable to Australia or in similar settings, and validates the supplementation of research approaches and methodologies with Afrocentric frameworks.

**Author Contributions:** L.M. was involved in conceptualising the study, recruiting participants, data collection and analysis and drafting of initial version of the manuscript. L.A. was involved in data analysis and in drafting the manuscript. K.G.: Conceptualised and designed the study, carried out participant recruitment, data collection and analysis, and participated in drafting the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by Southern Cross University Ethics Committee (project number ECN-18-002).

**Informed Consent Statement:** Written informed consents were obtained from the participants to publish this paper.

**Data Availability Statement:** The data used for the current study are not possible to share for ethical reasons. The Southern Cross University Ethics Committee requires that the data are not shared without the consent of participants, who are currently not accessible.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors acknowledge the participants of this study.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, or publication of this article.
