Welcoming America: A Case Study of Municipal Immigrant Integration, Receptivity, and Community Practice

Rodriguez, Darlene Xiomara; McDaniel, Paul N.; Ahebee, Marie-Dominique

doi:10.1080/10705422.2018.1477081

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“…In addition to the mental health disparities and barriers to care outlined above, the literature included in this scoping review also presented examples of initiatives working in partnership with immigrant communities to develop strengths-based approaches to promoting positive mental health and well-being. For example, Welcoming America is a national nonprofit that seeks to support positive interactions and outcomes for newly arrived immigrants and longer term residents of local communities (D. X. Rodriguez et al, 2018).…”

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A Scoping Review of Literature About Mental Health and Well-Being Among Immigrant Communities in the United States

Rodriguez

Hill

McDaniel

2020

Health Promotion Practice

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Immigration—both the experience of migrating and events after migration—can affect the mental health and well-being of immigrants and their communities. However, evidence suggests that immigrants in the United States do not access mental health services to the same extent as nonimmigrants. In particular, immigrant adolescents and young adults may have unique stressors related to their developmental stage, experiences in school and with peer groups, and shifting roles within family systems. This scoping review summarizes findings from published research studies and practitioner-focused gray literature about the mental health needs of immigrant communities in the United States. The review finds that specific mental health needs vary across factors like age, racial/ethnic group, immigration status, and place of residency. Findings also indicate that structural factors like immigration-related laws affect both access to mental health services and stressors in the overall environment for immigrants and their families. This review also explores models of community-level initiatives that utilize strengths-based approaches to promoting mental health and well-being among immigrant communities. Findings highlight the need for a better understanding of the mental health needs and current barriers to care among diverse immigrant populations, as immigration continues to play a major role in U.S. public policy and discourse. The COVID-19 pandemic taking place as this article goes to press in 2020 also raises questions regarding health equity and access for marginalized populations, including immigrants and their communities, and so these findings also indicate the need for further interdisciplinary research to assess intersections among the pandemic’s many impacts, including those related to mental health and well-being.

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A Scoping Review of Literature About Mental Health and Well-Being Among Immigrant Communities in the United States

Rodriguez

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McDaniel

2020

Health Promotion Practice

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“…This explains why the research focused on cities in this network rather than on the network itself. By contrast, Welcoming America (WA) is a non-profit organisation that coordinates a network of municipal affiliate welcoming cities (Rodriguez, McDaniel, and Ahebee 2018;Housel, Saxen, and Wahlrab 2018). This organisation was initially launched and framed by civil society activists in 2009 and gradually turned into a US-wide network of cities 2 .…”

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Migration-related city networks: a global overview

Lacroix¹

2021

Local Government Studies

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In recent years, one observes a surge in the number of city networks formed to address the welcoming and integration of immigrant populations. Drawing on a database of over sixty networks, the paper provides a global overview of their different types, scales and activities. Exploring the underlying factors explaining this worldwide expansion, it highlights two sets of congruent dynamics. This phenomenon has been elicited by the longue durée devolution to local authorities of powers and responsibilities pertaining to the management of immigrant populations on the one hand and the recent events of the 2015-2016 'migration crisis' on the other. It is also the outcome of the top-down influence of international organisations (including the European Union) and the bottom-up mobilisations of municipalities facing the growing contradictions between their welcoming responsibilities and security-oriented migration management. In the concluding section, the paper points to the challenges faced by international actors for the building of a 'glocal' migration governance.

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“…After the election of Trump, the number of sanctuary cities increased by two-thirds (Henderson 2018). Many scholars argue that much of the recent drive to create sanctuary cities in the US has also been a collective reaction to the federal government's abysmal failure to enact comprehensive immigration reform (Rodriguez, McDaniel, and Ahebee 2018).…”

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Border Struggles, Political Unity, and the Transformative Power of the Local: US Sanctuary Cities and Spain’s Cities of Refuge

Wonders

Bessa

2021

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This article draws on theoretical insights about bordering and citizenship as strategies for socially constructing difference and the scholarship on scalar challenges underlying contemporary bordering to analyze sanctuary cities in the United States and cities of refuge in Spain. We argue that these initiatives challenge and resist restrictive national migration policies from below, at the local level, with attention to their implications at the global scale. Such policies have the potential to create meaningful social change by 1) amplifying and producing political unity across socially constructed differences and 2) “scaling down” migration politics from the national to the local level and, simultaneously, “jumping scale” via reliance on human rights framings. We conclude that sanctuary city and city-of-refuge designations are not merely symbolic; instead, these designations can be conceived of as locally based, global repertoires of action that make positive contributions in pursuit of social justice.

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Welcoming America: A Case Study of Municipal Immigrant Integration, Receptivity, and Community Practice

Cited by 31 publications

References 7 publications

A Scoping Review of Literature About Mental Health and Well-Being Among Immigrant Communities in the United States

A Scoping Review of Literature About Mental Health and Well-Being Among Immigrant Communities in the United States

Migration-related city networks: a global overview

Border Struggles, Political Unity, and the Transformative Power of the Local: US Sanctuary Cities and Spain’s Cities of Refuge

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