Precarious Work and Parenting Stress among Mexican Immigrant Women in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela León‐Pérez ◽  
Caroline Richards ◽  
Amy L. Non
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women

Mexican Immigrant Women’s Reconstruction of Punishment and Victimhood in Intimate Partner Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 987-1007
Author(s):  
Blanca Ramirez ◽  
Devon Thacker Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women

Utilizing 20 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Mexican immigrant women in Southern California, we argue that participants employ a bifocal lens to develop perceptions of intimate partner violence (IPV). By drawing on existing knowledge from Mexico as reference points, the findings show that participants construct law enforcement as the appropriate intervention in the United States. As a result, they construct new norms for victims on how to address IPV. Ultimately, this research suggests that perceptions of laws and law enforcement as change agents in ending IPV within the United States may create, in fact, a false sense of security in Mexican immigrant women.

scholarly journals DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States

Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin R. Hamilton ◽  
Paola D. Langer ◽  
Caitlin Patler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Birth Outcomes ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women ◽  
Birth Records

Abstract The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted work authorization and protection from deportation to more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors. We estimate the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high school–educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Exploiting the arbitrariness of the upper age cutoff for DACA eligibility and using a difference-in-differences design, we find that DACA was associated with improvements in the rates of low birth weight and very low birth weight, birth weight in grams, and gestational age among Mexican immigrant mothers.

scholarly journals DACA’s association with birth outcomes among Mexican-origin mothers in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Hamilton ◽  
Paola Langer ◽  
Caitlin Patler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Birth Outcomes ◽  
Low Birthweight ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Deferred Action ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women ◽  
Birth Records

The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted work authorization and protection from deportation to more than 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors. We estimate the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high-school-educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Exploiting the arbitrariness of the upper-age cutoff for DACA eligibility and using a difference-in-differences design, we find that DACA was associated with improvements to the rates of low birthweight and very low birthweight, birthweight in grams, and gestational age among Mexican immigrant mothers.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Dietary Acculturation Among Mexican Immigrant Women Residing in a Southwestern US Metropolitan Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 256-256
Author(s):  
Berenice Ochoa Nogales ◽  
Juana Meléndez Torres ◽  
Adriana Verdezoto Alvarado ◽  
Sonia Vega-López
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Dietary Acculturation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women

Abstract Objectives Dietary acculturation consists of adopting food culture after migration to a host country. The purpose of this study was to describe how Mexican-born women perceive factors which contributed to their changes in dietary habits after migrating to the United States (US). Methods Fifteen self-identified Mexican women (41 ± 7 years old) residing in a Southwestern US metropolitan area and who had lived in the US for >1 year participated in semi-structured interviews conducted in Spanish. Interview guides, developed from a constructivist perspective, asked about the US food culture, changes in dietary habits, loss or maintenance of native food culture, and the incorporation of elements of the new food culture. Interview audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and analyzed based on pre-established theoretical categories using MAXQDA 2018. Results Half of the participants worked full time (53%) and had a household income of less than $2000/month (53%). When comparing the US food culture to that of Mexico, the majority of participants perceived greater availability and access to fast food (n = 9). Some participants identified feeling pressure for purchasing larger amounts of food to save money (n = 2). Only one participant associated high intake of fresh and nutritious food with the US food culture. Some participants perceived having more competing demands for time, resulting in not having enough time to prepare household meals (n = 3). Women referred to having maintained the consumption of meat, multiple ingredients (e.g., tortillas, limes, chili peppers), and products of Mexican traditional cuisine (n = 15), but having lost flavors (n = 11), commensality (n = 8), ways of preparation (n = 7), food freshness (n = 3) and smells (n = 1). Even though vegetables and trendy-health products were reported as newly incorporated elements in the diet (n = 7), participants also reported the incorporation of frozen (n = 2) and pre-cooked products (n = 2), which they considered are characteristic from the US diet. Conclusions Findings suggest that dietary acculturation among Mexican immigrant women is a complex process. This points to the importance of considering the cultural aspects of diet when designing strategies to improve diet and health for this group. Funding Sources CONACYT, Mexico and Program for Transborder Communities.

Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress and Depressive Symptomatology Among Married Mexican Immigrant Women

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Acculturative Stress ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Role Conflicts ◽  
Average Length Of Stay ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women

The purpose of the present study was to describe levels of acculturative stress and individual stressors and their relationship to levels of depressive symptomatology among young Mexican immigrant women. The mean age of the respondents was 25.7 years with a mean of 9.4 years of education. Their age at migration was 18.5 years and their average length of stay in the United States was 7.5 years. Women who in the last three months experienced discrimination, sex-role conflicts, and concern about starting a family in this country had significantly higher (over 16) CES-D scores than women who did not report experiencing those situations. The overall findings suggest that this sample of Mexican women immigrants as a group are at risk for the development of psychological problems.

Pathways to Legalization: Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the US/Mexico Borderlands, 1942–1956

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Agricultural Laborers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Contract Laborers

In the 1940s, curbing undocumented Mexican immigrant entry into the United States became a US government priority because of an alleged immigration surge, which was blamed for the unemployment of an estimated 252,000 US domestic agricultural laborers. Publicly committed to asserting its control of undocumented Mexican immigrant entry, the US government used Operation Wetback, a binational INS border-enforcement operation, to strike a delicate balance between satisfying US growers’ unending demands for surplus Mexican immigrant labor and responding to the jobs lost by US domestic agricultural laborers. Yet Operation Wetback would also unintentionally and unexpectedly fuel a distinctly transnational pathway to legalization, marriage, and extended family formation for some Mexican immigrants.On July 12, 1951, US president Harry S. Truman’s signing of Public Law 78 initiated such a pathway for an estimated 125,000 undocumented Mexican immigrant laborers throughout the United States. This law was an extension the Bracero Program, a labor agreement between the Mexican and US governments that authorized the temporary contracting of braceros (male Mexican contract laborers) for labor in agricultural production and railroad maintenance. It was formative to undocumented Mexican immigrant laborers’ transnational pursuit of decisively personal goals in both Mexico and the United States.Section 501 of this law, which allowed employers to sponsor certain undocumented laborers, became a transnational pathway toward formalizing extended family relationships between braceros and Mexican American women. This article seeks to begin a discussion on how Operation Wetback unwittingly inspired a distinctly transnational approach to personal extended family relationships in Mexico and the United States among individuals of Mexican descent and varying legal statuses, a social matrix that remains relatively unexplored.

“La Idea Mueve” (The Idea Moves Us)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela González
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment

The concluding chapter explains how race had served defenders of slavery by providing them with an excuse to hold men and women in bondage. For their inhumane treatment of Africans during the Age of Enlightenment to be justified, their humanity needed to be ideologically stripped away—scientific racism served that purpose. Racist theories also kept other groups in subaltern positions. Mexicans with mestizo, mulatto, and Indian genealogies experienced racialization in the United States. Simply put, Americans, proud of their liberal political heritage and their democratic institutions, needed to see oppressed groups as somehow sub-human in order to reconcile their political beliefs with the nation’s less than egalitarian realities. It is for this reason that the politics of redemption practiced by Mexican immigrant and Mexican American activists merits attention.

Intimate Partner Violence among Korean Immigrant Women in the United States: Intersectionality of Gender Norms, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Status

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110179
Author(s):  
Sei-Young Lee ◽  
Ga-Young Choi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Korean Immigrant Women

With the theory of feminist intersectionality, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) among Korean immigrant women focusing on gender norms, immigration, and socioeconomic status in the contexts of Korean culture. A total of 83 Korean immigrant women who were receiving a social service from non-profit agencies in ethnically diverse urban areas were recruited with a purposive sampling method. Hierarchical regressions were conducted to examine changes in variance explained by models. Having non-traditional gender norms, a college degree or higher education, immigrant life stresses, and living longer in the United States were positively associated with IPV while having higher income and being more fluent in English were negatively associated with IPV. Findings were discussed to understand Korean immigrant women’s internal conflict affected by their higher education and more egalitarian gender norms under the patriarchal cultural norms while experiencing immigrant life stresses and living in the United States. Implication for practice was also discussed.

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