Special issue: Monolith or mosaic? Miami’s twenty-first-century Latin@ dynamics

Abstract

this volume, authors use different pan-ethnic terms. As editor, I thought long and hard about which term(s) to employ in the volume's introduction-particularly with regard to the various forms of ''Latinos'' others have used in this journal and in other publications (Latinas/os, Latinxs and Latin@s). I decided on Latin@s because it both preserves the original, gendered term and complicates it. However, given that, in Miami, ''Hispanic'' and its Spanish variants are widely used, the volume's introduction uses both, intentionally and interchangeably.

Latiné immigrant heterogeneity: Striking health differences among Cuban refugee/migration waves to the United States

“…For example, question DS1A asks: With what frequency are you treated with less courtesy than others? Each question had six potential responses: almost every day (coded as 1), at least once a week (2), a few times a month (3), a few times a year (4), less than once a year (5), and never (6). Scores for these nine questions were added together to create a composite Everyday Discrimination Score (EDS) that ranged from 9-54, with lower scores indicating more discrimination and higher scores indicating less discrimination (table, S3).…”

“…Yet these groups are often homogenized in both public discourse and the scientific literature, undermining recognition of the potential contributions of this heterogeneity to morbidity and mortality. For example, terms like Hispanic and/or Latiné refer to a broad group of people who trace their ancestry to Spanish-speaking Latin-American countries and are composed of individuals from different genetic, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical backgrounds ( 6 ). Yet within the United States, Latiné populations have traditionally been treated and studied as a monolithic group ( 7 ).…”

Environmental Injustice and Industrial Chicken Farming in Delaware

“…Ultimately, the categorization of a wealth of Latinx identities into the monolithic "Hispanic" variable does not account for the range of sociocultural, linguistic, political, immigrationrelated, and socioeconomic differences experienced by people with varying Latinx backgrounds. 43 The present study would have benefited from more heterogeneity in Latinx data to better understand how immigration, race/ethnicity, and political identities factor into Latinx people's exposures to the chicken industry in Delaware. Additionally, certain racial and ethnic groups, including Hispanics and African Americans, have historically been "undercounted" in census surveys, leading to distortion in sociodemographic estimates.…”