Living a Deportation Threat: Anticipatory Stressors Confronted by Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women

García, San Juanita

doi:10.1007/s12552-018-9244-2

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“…Gonzales and Chavez 2012). As other scholars have observed, fear alone (due to deportation) is a chronic stressor that hinders immigrants’ mental well-being (García 2018) and their physical health (Torres et al 2018).…”

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“…Fear of apprehension related to driving is a chronic stressor that women experience in everyday life and hinders their health directly (Ayón 2018; García 2018). Our findings parallel Schmalzbauer’s (2014) study of Mexican women in Montana who lacked transportation in a place where driving is vital due to long distances and unreliable or nonexistent public transportation.…”

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“…Such ethnoracial divides exemplify the anti-Indigenous discrimination Indigenous groups face across Latin America, which travels with immigrants and becomes augmented under an immigration regime that racializes illegality (Gómez Cervantes 2019; Menjívar et al 2018). This situation harms women’s health directly by generating fear of driving and limiting their contact with institutions and indirectly by exploiting those fears and reproducing long-term consequences visible in chronic stress (see García 2018). Co-ethnic exploitation adds a layer of vulnerability that negatively affects undocumented Maya Indigenous women’s health the most.…”

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Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas

Cervantes

Menjívar

2020

J Health Soc Behav

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Using interviews and ethnography started in 2016 in rural and urban Kansas, we examine the consequences of an amplified immigration enforcement combined with a local limited health care infrastructure that reproduce legal violence manifesting on Latina immigrants’ health, access to care, and community participation. We highlight the conditions rooted in place that generate short- and long-term negative impacts for Latina immigrants’ health. Fear and anxiety about the deportation of themselves and their family members make them ill and also generate apprehension about contacting medical institutions, driving, and spending time in public spaces. These circumstances coalesce in women’s lives to block access to medical care and undermine women’s roles in their communities. Following gendered expectations, women turn to their informal networks to seek health care for their families. In the context that the enforcement regime has created, these ties can turn exploitative.

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Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas

Cervantes

Menjívar

2020

J Health Soc Behav

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“…The higher rate of anxiety in our study may be attributed in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we cannot rule out the possibility of other variables being involved, such as general immigration concerns which have been increasing for the past several years (Kirsten & Boneparth, 2017; García, 2018). In addition, the 2015 study involved a national survey of college dreamers, whereas the present sample of college dreamers all attended the same university and mainly resided in the Southern U.S.…”

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Mental health of undocumented college students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ornelas

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a surge in mental health problems across the United States, and some reports suggest a more severe impact for racial and ethnic minorities. The present study was conducted to gain a preliminary understanding of the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic specifically for dreamers, i.e., undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as minors. A population of about 150 dreamers currently enrolled at a public university in Delaware were invited to participate in an online survey. The survey contained questions about demographics, mental health, academics, immigration, COVID-19 infection, and unemployment, in addition to mental health screens for anxiety (GAD-7), depression (PHQ-9), and stress (PSS-10). In total, 109 dreamers completed the survey. We observed remarkably high clinical levels of anxiety and depression: 47% of the dreamers met the clinical cutoff for anxiety, 63% met the cutoff for depression, and 67% (2 in 3) met the cutoff for anxiety and/or depression. Rates of anxiety and depression in our sample were significantly higher than those recently reported for college students overall, suggesting that dreamers may be experiencing a more severe mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also found that pandemic-induced concerns about finances, COVID-19 infection, immigration, and unemployment (among other factors) were associated with greater anxiety, stress, and depression among the dreamers in our sample. The present findings are consistent with recent predictions by social scientists that the COVID-19 pandemic would have a disproportionately negative impact on the mental health of undocumented immigrants.

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“…Othering particularly refers to the experience of being made to feel excluded, devalued, or subjugated due to difference from a dominant or majority social group (Canales, 2000). Experience of othering has been shown to influence psychological stress states and both othering and structural stress experiences can increase threat sensitivity, causing affected individuals to anticipate more negative outcomes in situations that appear risk-laden (García, 2018; Molina et al, 2016). For women of color, anticipating discriminatory or demeaning treatment when reporting IPV and/or SA may thus be assessed as too threatening to endure (DeVylder et al, 2017).…”

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Reporting Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault: A Mixed Methods Study of Concerns and Considerations Among College Women of Color

Burton

Guidry

2020

J Transcult Nurs

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to explore how women of color affiliated with a large public university in the United States evaluated involving authorities in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) and/or sexual assault (SA) and to discover if structural stressors such as racism or sexism influenced their thinking. Methodology: Surveys on perceived ethnic discrimination, depression, trauma history, stress, social support, resilience, and sleep disturbance were completed by 87 self-identified women of color. All women also participated in one of several focus groups on IPV and SA. Results: Roughly half of participants had experienced SA and about a third experienced IPV. Participants identifying as Latinx/Hispanic or Black/African American reported the greatest experiences of structural stressors and also felt there was not always a potential safety gain with reporting IPV and/or SA. Discussion: The results of this study suggest universities must create more culturally competent environs of safety for women of color.

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Living a Deportation Threat: Anticipatory Stressors Confronted by Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women

Cited by 88 publications

References 56 publications

Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas

Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas

Mental health of undocumented college students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Reporting Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault: A Mixed Methods Study of Concerns and Considerations Among College Women of Color

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