Lowell Immigrant Communities in the Climate of Deportations

Sladkova, Jana; Mangado, Sandra M. García; Quinteros, Johana Reyes

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“…It is refreshing to see manuscripts that address both prejudice and stereotyping, and psychological consequences in the social context of immigration. For example, Levers and Hyatt‐Burke () and Sládková, Mangado, and Quinteros () address the consequences of immigration policies on both Latinos and other refugee groups away from the international border. Further investigation of prejudice toward immigrants is conducted by Nier, Gaertner, Nier, and Dovidio (), who extrapolate from the general intergroups and prejudice domain.…”

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“…Future research must attempt to identify how prejudice toward immigrants might differ from prejudice toward other out‐groups. In particular, we currently see how state laws have become targeted toward immigration in a form that can be argued as criminalizing toward immigrants (Sládková et al, ). As Mukherjee, Molina, and Adams () point out, most immigration policies aim to punish immigrants without consequences for the American population who engage with immigrants through unlawful employment.…”

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Future Directions in Research Regarding Attitudes Toward Immigrants

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Immigration became a political concern after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since then, states are implementing legislation that targets immigrant groups. In response, researchers have begun to investigate the consequences of immigration policies in the United States. For this special issue of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, the editors compiled a series of articles that highlight how the new political dynamics are influencing the lives of immigrants, often in reaction to Arizona SB 1070. This commentary summarizes the key topics discussed in the series of articles and provides suggestions for new research. It is proposed that prejudice towards immigrants is now "allowed" by the new social norms and that such prejudice produces new questions rarely addressed in the literature. The realities that some immigrants bring to the country (like reduced homicide rates) contrast the political rhetoric, and those distinctions provide great opportunities for research. In addition, the change brought about by large immigrant populations can influence self-perceptions of what many Americans consider the national identity, which is also rarely studied. This special issue provides a great step in this research endeavor, and it is proposed that there are multiple possible paths to productive research regarding prejudice towards immigrants.The events of September 11, 2001, ignited an immigration debate in the United States that continues to be at the political forefront. In reaction to the 9/11 attacks, the southern borders were closed to "protect" the country from terrorism, and immigration patterns changed dramatically. Since then, it has become difficult for immigrant workers to commute over the international border, causing the immigrant population to grow because immigrants are settling in the United

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“…When caught on the U.S. side of the border undocumented migrants are either held in a detention center built specifically for this purpose or kept in regular prisons mixed with people imprisoned for violent crimes and treated as such by the guards. Recent reports indicate that over 100 migrants have died in detention centers since 2003 (Sládková, Mangado, & Quinteros, 2011). The causes include suicide brought on by the psychological pressure and mistreatment of migrants by guards who probably want to scare migrants from ever attempting to come back.…”

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“The guys told us crying that they saw how they were killing her and they could not do anything”: Psychosocial explorations of migrant journeys to the U.S.+

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In this article I examine undocumented migrant experiences on their journeys to the U.S. Tens of thousands of Honduran migrants leave their homes in hopes to provide better for their families from afar. In in-depth interviews, 21 migrants from Honduras share the events they endure as they cross Guatemala, Mexico and the borders that divide them. I conducted narrative analyses and specifically used the analytical tools of high points and poises to locate the most salient experiences the migrants narrated as well as identifying particular selves the migrants were presenting. The high points centered around the crossings of the Mexico-U.S. border, encounters with gangs and the police in Mexico, and travels on top of freight trains. Most of these events were highly charged with potential short and long-term effects on the migrants' health. In trying to make sense of their experiences, migrants presented themselves as heroes helping others, victims of the migration systems, good parents, or unaffected bystanders. This research provides insight into the rarely explored psychosocial aspects of undocumented migration, illuminates how Honduran migrants who attempt this journey make sense of their experiences, and proposes interventions to mitigate the potentially tragic consequences of this migration."Los chicos nos dijeron llorando que vieron cómo la mataban sin poder hacer nada": Exploraciones psicosociales de viajes de emigrantes a los EE.UU. R E S U M E NEn este artículo examino las experiencias que han tenido en sus viajes hacia los EE.UU. cientos de miles de emigrantes hondureños que dejan su hogar con la esperanza de poder ayudar mejor a su familia desde la lejanía. En las entrevistas en profundidad llevadas a cabo, 21 emigrantes de Honduras comparten los contratiempos que tienen que soportar cuando cruzan Guatemala, México y las fronteras que los separan. He llevado a cabo análisis narrativos, utilizando particularmente herramientas analíticas de "momentos culminantes" y "equilibrios" con el fin de detectar las experiencias más destacadas que relatan los emigrantes, así como detectar las distintas identidades que muestran. Los momentos culminantes se centraron en los cruces de frontera entre México y EE.UU., encuentros inesperados en México con bandas y con la policía y viajes subidos en el techo de trenes de mercancías. Muchas de estas peripecias tenían una gran carga de efectos potenciales a corto y largo plazo en la salud de los emigrantes. En un intento de dar sentido a sus experiencias se presentaban a sí mismos como héroes que ayudan a los demás, víctimas de los sistemas de inmigración, buenos padres o simples transeúntes. La investigación aporta luz sobre unos aspectos psicosociales poco explorados de la emigración de indocumentados, esclareciendo de qué modo los emigrantes hondureños que intentan hacer esta travesía dan sentido a su experiencia y propone intervenciones que mitiguen las consecuencias potencialmente trágicas de este emigración.

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“…Specifically, assimilation to the majority group may cause ethnic and racial minority groups to disidentify from the positive qualities of their group membership. Thus, as discussed in many of the papers found in this volume (Levers & Hyatt‐Burkhart, ; Sarabia, ; Sládková, Mangado, & Quinteros, ; Trujillo & Paluck, ), exclusively teaching assimilation is likely to have important negative psychological consequences for members of minority groups. Such narrow views of multiculturalism overlook the ability to take pride in one's group and still appreciate ethnic and racial differences.…”

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Another View from the Ground: How Laws Like SB1070 and HB2281 Erode the Intergroup Fabric of Our Community

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2011

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In this commentary, we discuss the articles included in ASAP's special issue on Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 and explore the means by which intergroup bias related to the support and implementation of this law may be reduced. Specifically, we briefly discuss the overall conclusions that can be drawn from the articles included in this volume and address questions that still remain regarding the potential effects of this law. Next, we explore potential strategies for reducing bias between Whites and Latinos, and we discuss the limitations Arizona's House Bill 2281 will impose on our ability to successfully improve intergroup relations in Arizona.The articles included in this volume provide an in-depth assessment of the social and psychological factors that predict support for immigration laws like SB1070, as well as the potential ramifications of SB1070 for the intergroup attitudes of American citizens, the behavior of law enforcement officers, and the experiences of individual immigrants. This research clearly indicates that, if implemented, laws like SB1070 will promote racial profiling by law enforcement personnel, which will then cause higher levels of stigmatization and victimization of Latinos and other racial and ethnic minorities. In this commentary, we draw attention, first, to some additional implications of laws like SB1070 that have not received as much attention in the press or in this volume and, second, to implications of another law passed by the legislature in Arizona, HB2281, that effectively prevents implementation of educational programs and activities that can reduce the harmful effects of SB1070.The most obvious problem with laws like SB1070 is that they promote racial profiling by local police. The papers by Nier, Gaertner, Nier, and Dovidio (2011),

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Lowell Immigrant Communities in the Climate of Deportations

Cited by 24 publications

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Future Directions in Research Regarding Attitudes Toward Immigrants

Future Directions in Research Regarding Attitudes Toward Immigrants

“The guys told us crying that they saw how they were killing her and they could not do anything”: Psychosocial explorations of migrant journeys to the U.S.+

Another View from the Ground: How Laws Like SB1070 and HB2281 Erode the Intergroup Fabric of Our Community

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