Gendered Paths to Legal Citizenship: The Case of Latin-American Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona

Salcido, Olivia; Menjívar, Cecilia

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00491.x

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“…Prior studies have documented the work of Hispanic immigrant women in the informal sector (e.g. González Baker 1997, Salcido & Menjivar 2012). Borjas (2016) finds that the employment rate for documented immigrant women at middle and older ages is similar to native-born Americans, while that for undocumented immigrant women is higher than that for native born.…”

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Retirement Planning Among Hispanics: In God’s Hands?

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Gongora

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Journal of Aging & Social Policy

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We conducted a qualitative study on retirement preparedness among middle-aged and older low-income Hispanics in Los Angeles. Data derived from four focus groups conducted in the greater Los Angeles area. Findings demonstrate how behavioral and cultural factors—family experiences, religiosity, and denial of retirement—explain the lack of savings and preparedness for retirement. Findings also indicate that the majority of participants want to be economically independent and to keep working until they are unable to do so. Participants helped their parents financially but did not feel comfortable asking their own children for help. Instead, participants placed their survival in retirement “in God’s hands.”

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Retirement Planning Among Hispanics: In God’s Hands?

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Gongora

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Journal of Aging & Social Policy

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“…While certain hierarchies are created through migrant entry practices, the complexities in the nature of entry leads to the creation of webs of regularity and irregularity in nonbinary ways. In turn, these create deep-seated divisions especially according to nationality (Menjívar and Salcido 2012). The identification of migrant entry and regularisation practices adapts similar typologies elsewhere that revolve around the three core counter-strategies of entry, residence and employment (Broeders and Engbersen 2007).…”

Section: Creating Webs Of (Ir)regularity: Migrant Entry and Regularismentioning

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Legal Latins: Creating Webs and Practices of Immigration Status among Latin American Migrants in London

McIlwaine¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Despite an increasingly globalised world, the effects of ever more restrictive barriers to people's movement result in people developing complex and innovative ways to enter and settle in countries beyond their own. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research with Latin Americans in London from a range of nationalities and socioeconomic backgrounds, this paper examines how migrants across the spectrum of immigration statuses have responded to these restrictions with a particular focus on negotiating irregularity. Through analysing how migrants develop a range of entry, regularisation as well as spatial, economic and social invisibility practices as they arrive and settle, the paper challenges a binary hierarchy of immigration status and subsequent well-being. Instead, it argues that conceptualising these as the creation of webs encapsulates the complexity and dynamism of migrant irregularity as migrants negotiate from above and below. The paper highlights how these webs and practices emerge from below in innovative ways that entail negotiation of fluid migration regimes that structure a wider context of exclusion within which migrants can exercise agency from below.

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“…Given that much of women's time is likely to be spent in the private sphere whereas men frequently spend more time in the public sphere, this can have the unintended consequence of a male bias whereby abuses of women's right in the private sphere are frequently unrecognised. The tacit subject in refugee law is a free, autonomous, rational contract-making individual whose rights are violated in the public sphere by the state (Oswin, 2001;Salcido and Menjívar, 2012). Moreover, 'the key criteria for being a refugee are drawn primarily from the realm of public sphere activities dominated by men' (Indra, 1987, cited in Kelly, 1993.…”

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Gendering activism, exile and wellbeing: Chilean exiles in the UK

Gideon

2018

Gender, Place & Culture

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Drawing on the case of Chilean exiles in the UK this article looks at the experiences of exiles through a gender lens. The analysis argues for the need to recognise the gendered nature of spaces of political activism in order to highlight the contribution made by many Chilean women to life in exile. Using a gender lens sheds light on the multiple ways in which many women were indirectly the victims of abuse under the military regime and how this impacts on their mental health and wellbeing. The analysis also provides new insights into how forced migration impacts on gender roles and norms among those living in exile. The article primarily focuses on the experiences of women who arrived in the UK as the 'wife of' political activists, a group whose needs have been frequently overlooked.

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Gendered Paths to Legal Citizenship: The Case of Latin-American Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona

Cited by 73 publications

References 58 publications

Retirement Planning Among Hispanics: In God’s Hands?

Retirement Planning Among Hispanics: In God’s Hands?

Legal Latins: Creating Webs and Practices of Immigration Status among Latin American Migrants in London

Gendering activism, exile and wellbeing: Chilean exiles in the UK

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