While traumatic experiences can lead to poorer mental health, post-traumatic growth theory suggests that adversity can also increase one’s personal strength and emotional resilience. Emotional resilience is a way of adapting to challenging situations and occurs when individuals are able to cope with stress and remain calm. Traumatic experiences disproportionately impact immigrants and refugees, who may emigrate due to unsafe or harsh conditions. Online databases (i.e., PubMed, Google Scholar) were searched to conduct a narrative review of the literature to examine post-traumatic growth and emotional resilience among people emigrating from Africa and the Middle East. Inclusion criteria for articles are (1) participants are migrants or refugees from Africa and/or the Middle East, (2) association between traumatic experiences and resilience is reported, and (3) the study is a peer-reviewed publication based on primary data. Multiple theoretical perspectives will be explored to provide a broader perspective. In general, traumatic experiences may result in immigrants and refugees using problem-focused and emotion-based coping strategies, and gaining a better sense of one’s identity, such as through discovering new strengths and abilities. Additionally, differences in post-traumatic growth by gender, religion, education, and culture will be investigated. For example, people in more collectivistic cultures may rely on one another more and experience positive growth. Finally, future recommendations for research and specific policy and clinical recommendations will be provided based on the available literature.