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Description: This repository accompanies the publication: 'The Migration Experience: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Scoping Review of Psychological Acculturation' (https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683231183479). The repository contains three main components: (1) research materials that document the systematic review, (2) data files that include raw, processed, and coded sets of literature, and (3) fully annotated analysis code, including any additional analyses that go beyond the scope of the main manuscript. Abstract: One of the key challenges to researching psychological acculturation is an immense heterogeneity in theories and measures. These inconsistencies make it difficult to compare past literature on acculturation, hinder straight-forward measurement selections, and hamper the development of an overarching framework. To structure our understanding of the migration process, we propose to utilize the four basic elements of human experiences (wanting, feeling, thinking, and doing) as a conceptual framework. We use this framework to build a theory-driven literature synthesis of past theoretical (final N = 92), methodological (final N = 233) and empirical literature (final N = 530). We find that especially empirical works have understudied the more internal aspects of acculturation (motivations and feelings) and have often fallen short of capturing all four aspects of the migration experience. We also show differences between publication fields and discuss how the framework can aid transparent and functional theories, studies, and interventions going forward.