Immigrants’ experiences of work-family conflict in the U.S.: a systematic review

Lin, I-Hsuan; Lin, Pei-Shi

doi:10.1080/13668803.2020.1722063

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“…For immigrant families experiencing work and family conflict due to competing demands between their child’s needs and employment requirements, there may be additional challenges since they may be separated from their families of origin, and have lost networks of social support with their move to their host country (Lin & Lin, 2020). It may be crucial to connect immigrant families raising children with special health needs to culturally supportive organizations in their new communities that can provide the connections they need to successfully navigate their work and family responsibilities in their host country (Im, 2020; Lero & Lewis, 2008; Rodriguez et al, 2016).…”

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“…Demands related to exceptional care require additional resources and can create situations of resource loss. Immigrant status can also shape the access of families to resources (Lin & Lin, 2020). For example, immigrant families potentially face financial hardships due to inadequate employment opportunities since they need to devote more time to find new ways to meet to their children’s health care needs and absorb the high costs of raising a child with a disability (Alsharaydeh, Alqudah, Lee, & Chan, 2019; Narayan, 2015).…”

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Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs

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Sellmaier

Shrestha

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Issues

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Immigrant parents may struggle to secure and maintain employment if they raise children with disabilities. The current study examines data from immigrant parents responding to the 2018 National Survey of Children’s Health, including 618 raising children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and 2937 parenting children needing typical care. Parents of CSHCN had higher levels of both aggravation and resilience, but less access to a medical home than parents with typical care responsibilities. Immigrants were less likely to change jobs, but more likely to cut back work hours, or quit work, if they had CSHCNs lacking a medical home, missing more school days, and living in unsafe neighborhoods. Parents of CHSHNs also spent substantial time coordinating care and providing health care at home. Results indicate the need for service providers to connect immigrant families with CSHCNs with culturally supportive organizations that can help them handle family responsibilities while maintaining employment.

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Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs

Stewart

Sellmaier

Shrestha

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Issues

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“…The work-family conflict (WFC) occurs when demands and negative moods experienced in the work domain spill over into the family domain, which potentially undermines wellbeing, family functioning, and social relationships (64)(65)(66)(67)(68)(69). WFC is significantly related to affective disorders including anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation (70,71). Frone et al posited that mediates the relationship between work and family microsystems (65).…”

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Inverted U-shaped relationship between education and family health: The urban-rural gap in Chinese dual society

Jia

Long

Luo

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionThe Healthy China Initiative emphasizes family health. Education is an upstream determinant of health, which can both achieve upward mobility and cause class solidification.MethodsUsing nationwide large-scale data collected in 2021, the present study explored the relationship between education and family health in the urban-rural dual society via Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and propensity score matching.ResultsOur data revealed disparities in family health, educational attainment, household income, healthcare coverage, and job type between urban and rural China. An inverted U-shaped relationship existed between increasing years of education and family health. The upper limit was 17.1 years for urban residents and 13.7 years for rural residents, with limited health benefits from higher education obtained by rural residents. Mediated by work-family conflict, highly-educated people received gradually diminishing health returns. The results of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition showed that 25.8% of the urban-rural gap in family health could be explained by the disparity in education. Urban residents could translate cultural capital and economic capital into health capital to a greater extent. After propensity score matching, a robust, inverted U-shaped relationship was found between education and family health. The inverted U-shaped relationship was found to replace family health with self-rated health and quality of life.DiscussionFamily-centered public health and education programs, policies, and goals should be developed to break urban-rural dual structure barriers and advance social equity in China.

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“…This is important because some evidence suggests that the meaning and experience of WFC may differ for individuals exposed to multiple cultures compared to those influenced by a single culture (e.g., Grzywacz et al, 2007;Olson et al, 2013;Shang et al, 2018). As such, scholars have argued that it is crucial to expand the focus of interest to include immigrant populations in work-family research and explore how acculturation impacts their WFC (Grzywacz et al, 2007(Grzywacz et al, , 2018Lin & Lin, 2021) to advance our understanding of the WFC experience in the cross-cultural context (Powell et al, 2018).…”

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Immigrant Workers’ Language Proficiency and Cultural Identity Congruence and Work–Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Conflict at Work

Shang,

Guo,

Roche

et al. 2023

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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To facilitate a much greater understanding of work–family conflict (WFC) in the cross-cultural context, work–family research begins to investigate the critical role of acculturation in WFC. The purpose of this study is to expand understanding of the role of acculturation in a more nuanced way by investigating how two important facets of acculturation (i.e., language proficiency and cultural identity), jointly influence WFC among immigrant workers. We conducted a polynomial regression with response surface analysis using two-wave longitudinal data from Chinese immigrants in New Zealand ( N = 264). The results showed that the congruence of language proficiency and cultural identity led to lower levels of interpersonal conflict at work (ICW). However, the congruence between them at high levels did not lead to lower levels of ICW compared to congruence at low levels. In addition, ICW fully mediated the combined effects of immigrant workers’ language proficiency and cultural identity on their WFC. Our results suggest that benefits are associated with language proficiency and cultural identity congruence and the findings provide insight into the role of acculturation in WFC.

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Immigrants’ experiences of work-family conflict in the U.S.: a systematic review

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs

Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs

Inverted U-shaped relationship between education and family health: The urban-rural gap in Chinese dual society

Immigrant Workers’ Language Proficiency and Cultural Identity Congruence and Work–Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Conflict at Work

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