Experiencing discrimination in Los Angeles: Latinos at the intersection of legal status and socioeconomic status

Landale, Nancy S.; Oropesa, R. S.; Noah, Aggie J.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.05.003

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“…Still, there is evidence that discrimination prevalence rates may be even higher than what is shown in our results. Age, socioeconomic status, and legal status have been found to influence how likely one is to experience and/or report discriminatory treatment based on race or ethnicity [30,16]. Research by Crosby [31] suggests that people are prone to minimize personal experiences of discrimination because of the difficulty of inferring discrimination from individual cases and because of the discomfort in confronting one’s own victimization.…”

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On the prevalence of racial discrimination in the United States

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Boutwell, Nedelec, Winegard, Shackelford, Beaver, Vaughn, Barnes, & Wright (2017) published an article in this journal that interprets data from the Add Health dataset as showing that only one-quarter of individuals in the United States experience discrimination. In Study 1, we attempted to replicate Boutwell et al.’s findings using a more direct measure of discrimination. Using data from the Pew Research Center, we examined a large sample of American respondents (N = 3,716) and explored the prevalence of discrimination experiences among various racial groups. Our findings stand in contrast to Boutwell et al.’s estimates, revealing that between 50% and 75% of Black, Hispanic, and Asian respondents (depending on the group and analytic approach) reported discriminatory treatment. In Study 2, we explored whether question framing affected how participants responded to Boutwell’s question about experiencing less respect and courtesy. Regardless of question framing, non-White participants reported more experiences than White participants. Further, there was an interaction of participant race and question framing such that when participants were asked about experiences of less respect or courtesy broadly, there were no differences between non-White participants and White participants, but when they were asked about experiences that were specifically race-based, non-White participants reported more experiences than White participants. The current research provides a counterweight to the claim that discrimination is not a prevalent feature of the lives of minority groups and the serious implications this claim poses for research and public policy.

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“…Additionally, U.S.-born Latinas have reported higher discrimination scores. 55 Therefore, it is plausible that U.S.-born Latinas have higher rates of preterm birth due to increased discrimination experienced in the U.S., but due to our low number of U.S.-born Latinas in this study, we were unable to assess this subgroup's association.…”

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A Multisite Examination of Everyday Discrimination and the Prevalence of Spontaneous Preterm Birth in African American and Latina Women in the United States

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Objective African American women have a higher risk of spontaneous preterm birth than White and Latina women. Although Latina women are exposed to similar social determinants of health, they have lower rates of spontaneous preterm birth. One theory for this difference is the maternal stress biological pathway, whereby lifetime stressors, such as racial discrimination, lead to a premature activation of parturition. We investigated the prevalence of self-reported discrimination and its association with the prevalence of spontaneous preterm birth. Study Design Using data from the Community Child Health Research Network Study, a multisite cohort study from 2008 to 2012, we conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 1,154 African American women and 578 Latina women. Results Adjusting for multiple risk factors, African American and Latina women who experienced the highest tertile of discrimination had a higher prevalence of preterm birth compared with those who experienced discrimination less than once per year, adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) = 1.5 (0.7–3.1) and 3.6 (0.9–14.4), respectively. Conclusion In our cohort, we found a statistically significant association only in the medium discrimination group in Latina women, but we did not find a statistically significant association in African American women. Reduction in experienced discrimination may be an important intervention for reducing adverse pregnancy outcomes.

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“…Immigrant-related policies are a form of structural nativism and racism and immigrants of color may be subject to differential rates of policy enforcement. For example, many studies in this review focused on immigrants from Latin America, who make up half of the immigrant population in the USA [ 54 ] and who are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement officials because of the conflation of Latino and undocumented immigrant [ 46 , 55 – 58 ]. Information on how policies affect immigrants of different races and ethnicities is needed to elucidate the interwovenness of immigrant-related policies and structural racism, and, if it exists, demonstrate unjust targeting of any one group.…”

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Federal, State, and Local Immigrant-Related Policies and Child Health Outcomes: a Systematic Review

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Kim

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J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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The passage of US immigrant-related policies at the federal, state, and local level is on the rise. These policies may affect child health through several mechanisms. We performed a systematic review of English-language, peer-reviewed, quantitative studies examining US immigrant-related policies and the mental and physical health of youth in immigrant families. We searched PubMed and five social science databases for studies published between 1986 and 2019. Two independent reviewers screened the studies and appraised study quality. Of the final 17 studies, ten studies examined birth outcomes and seven studies examined other outcomes in childhood and adolescence (e.g., self-rated health). Generally, exclusionary policies were associated with worse health outcomes and inclusive policies were associated with better health outcomes. Several studies did not observe an association, but only one study found an association of the opposite direction. In that study, similar trends in different policy environments and across foreign-born and US-born women suggest alternative causes for the observed association. Overall, we find that exclusionary policies are, at best, neutral, but likely harmful towards child wellbeing, while inclusive policies can be beneficial. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40615-021-00978-w.

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Experiencing discrimination in Los Angeles: Latinos at the intersection of legal status and socioeconomic status

Cited by 31 publications

References 44 publications

On the prevalence of racial discrimination in the United States

On the prevalence of racial discrimination in the United States

A Multisite Examination of Everyday Discrimination and the Prevalence of Spontaneous Preterm Birth in African American and Latina Women in the United States

Federal, State, and Local Immigrant-Related Policies and Child Health Outcomes: a Systematic Review

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