Josefina Flores Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 245044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josefina Flores Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josefina Flores |
| FAMILY NAME | Morales |
| SIGNATURE | MORALES J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5370-1423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Children to Parents: How Education, Marital Status, and Gender Shape Upward Financial Transfers
Inequities in Excess Pandemic Mortality Among Documented and Undocumented Immigrants in California, 2020–2023
Objectives. To examine how excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic differed by legal status and its intersections with sociodemographic factors, overall and among working-age Latinos. Methods. Using death records from Californian adults (aged ≥ 25 years) with a natural cause of death, we estimated excess mortality between March 2020 and May 2023, using ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) models fit to prepandemic data spanning …
Asymmetric effects of transitioning into and out of housing hardship on depressive symptoms: Variation by gender and race/ethnicity
Do ties protect? Examining economic insecurity and mental health in mixed‐status families among undocumented undergraduates
Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship Between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students
Research has established that legal vulnerability has detrimental consequences for the mental health of undocumented individuals. The purpose of our study is to consider how practicing agency is associated with mental health in the face of such structural marginalization. To meet this goal, we conceptualize actions taken to resist structural inequality as acts of resistance to center immigrants’ agency in navigating and contesting their marginali…
Can’t Buy Me Health-Care Access: Qualitative Experiences of U.S.-Born Latinx Adults’ Health Insurance Coverage and Health-Care Use Post ACA
Latinx persons have lower levels of health insurance coverage than other racial and ethnic groups even after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Using 182 interviews from the American Voices Project, this study examines how U.S.-born Latinx adults experience health-care coverage and health-care use. Interview data demonstrate that health-care access is insufficient to ensure full health-care use. Health-care use costs…
Medical Legal Violence: Health Care and Immigration Enforcement against Latinx Noncitizens
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: Heterogeneity by Generation and School Context
Previous research suggests that peer social networks affect immigrant youths’ academics. However, little is known about whether peer parental education spillovers on educational outcomes differ by generational status and whether students are exposed to more same-ethnic peers in school. This study tests: (1) whether attending classes with peers with educated parents is associated with academic outcomes, (2) whether this relationship varies by gene…
Network resources and educational outcomes among Mexican-origin youth
Despite schooling gains over the last two decades, Mexican-origin adults complete fewer years of schooling than adults from other ethnic backgrounds. Explanations emphasizing network resources suggest Mexican-origin adolescents have social ties that are more likely to be "closed" from adults with experience in higher education-and this, in turn, inhibits the transition to college. In this study, we draw on unusual network data measuring character…
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Diabetes and Depression Among Immigrants in the United States
Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
Being undocumented is strongly correlated with low wages, employment in high risk occupations, and poor healthcare access. We know surprisingly little about the social lives of older undocumented adults despite the vast literature about youth and young undocumented migrants. Literature about the immigrant health paradox casts doubts on the argument that unequal social conditions translate to poorer self-reported health and mortality, but few of t…
Beyond undocumented: Differences in the mental health of Latinx undocumented college students
Undocumented college students face several threats to their well-being and mental health. Different social locations, including whether students have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, students’ gender, and family factors may shape students’ ability to be well. How these factors work together to shape mental health outcomes among undocumented Latinx college students is not well understood. This study examines several factors (de…
Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Undocumented individuals in U.S. society have been barred from access to federal economic relief during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Increased visibility of the vulnerability of undocumented individuals may provide a window of opportunity for inclusive policies. On the contrary, previous research about pro-immigrant sentiment shows that supporters of undocumented migrants advocate for them by using discourse that ultimately reifies their exclusi…
Calloused hands, shorter life? Occupation and older-age survival in Mexico
BACKGROUND: Inequalities in mortality are often attributed to socioeconomic differences in education level, income, and wealth. Low socioeconomic status (SES) is generally related to worse health and survival across the life course. Yet, disadvantaged people are also more likely to hold jobs requiring heavy physical labor, repetitive movement, ergonomic strain, and safety hazards. OBJECTIVE: We examine the link between primary lifetime occupation…
Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
Being undocumented is strongly correlated with low wages, employment in high risk occupations, and poor healthcare access. We know surprisingly little about the social lives of older undocumented adults despite the vast literature about youth and young undocumented migrants. Literature about the immigrant health paradox casts doubts on the argument that unequal social conditions translate to poorer self-reported health and mortality, but few of t…
Beyond undocumented: Differences in the mental health of Latinx undocumented college students
Undocumented college students face several threats to their well-being and mental health. Different social locations, including whether students have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, students’ gender, and family factors may shape students’ ability to be well. How these factors work together to shape mental health outcomes among undocumented Latinx college students is not well understood. This study examines several factors (de…
Asymmetric effects of transitioning into and out of housing hardship on depressive symptoms: Variation by gender and race/ethnicity
Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Undocumented individuals in U.S. society have been barred from access to federal economic relief during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Increased visibility of the vulnerability of undocumented individuals may provide a window of opportunity for inclusive policies. On the contrary, previous research about pro-immigrant sentiment shows that supporters of undocumented migrants advocate for them by using discourse that ultimately reifies their exclusi…
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: Heterogeneity by Generation and School Context
Previous research suggests that peer social networks affect immigrant youths’ academics. However, little is known about whether peer parental education spillovers on educational outcomes differ by generational status and whether students are exposed to more same-ethnic peers in school. This study tests: (1) whether attending classes with peers with educated parents is associated with academic outcomes, (2) whether this relationship varies by gene…
Medical Legal Violence: Health Care and Immigration Enforcement against Latinx Noncitizens
Calloused hands, shorter life? Occupation and older-age survival in Mexico
BACKGROUND: Inequalities in mortality are often attributed to socioeconomic differences in education level, income, and wealth. Low socioeconomic status (SES) is generally related to worse health and survival across the life course. Yet, disadvantaged people are also more likely to hold jobs requiring heavy physical labor, repetitive movement, ergonomic strain, and safety hazards. OBJECTIVE: We examine the link between primary lifetime occupation…
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Diabetes and Depression Among Immigrants in the United States
Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
Being undocumented is strongly correlated with low wages, employment in high risk occupations, and poor healthcare access. We know surprisingly little about the social lives of older undocumented adults despite the vast literature about youth and young undocumented migrants. Literature about the immigrant health paradox casts doubts on the argument that unequal social conditions translate to poorer self-reported health and mortality, but few of t…
Beyond undocumented: Differences in the mental health of Latinx undocumented college students
Undocumented college students face several threats to their well-being and mental health. Different social locations, including whether students have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, students’ gender, and family factors may shape students’ ability to be well. How these factors work together to shape mental health outcomes among undocumented Latinx college students is not well understood. This study examines several factors (de…
Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Undocumented individuals in U.S. society have been barred from access to federal economic relief during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Increased visibility of the vulnerability of undocumented individuals may provide a window of opportunity for inclusive policies. On the contrary, previous research about pro-immigrant sentiment shows that supporters of undocumented migrants advocate for them by using discourse that ultimately reifies their exclusi…
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: Heterogeneity by Generation and School Context
Previous research suggests that peer social networks affect immigrant youths’ academics. However, little is known about whether peer parental education spillovers on educational outcomes differ by generational status and whether students are exposed to more same-ethnic peers in school. This study tests: (1) whether attending classes with peers with educated parents is associated with academic outcomes, (2) whether this relationship varies by gene…
Network resources and educational outcomes among Mexican-origin youth
Despite schooling gains over the last two decades, Mexican-origin adults complete fewer years of schooling than adults from other ethnic backgrounds. Explanations emphasizing network resources suggest Mexican-origin adolescents have social ties that are more likely to be "closed" from adults with experience in higher education-and this, in turn, inhibits the transition to college. In this study, we draw on unusual network data measuring character…
Do ties protect? Examining economic insecurity and mental health in mixed‐status families among undocumented undergraduates
Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship Between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students
Research has established that legal vulnerability has detrimental consequences for the mental health of undocumented individuals. The purpose of our study is to consider how practicing agency is associated with mental health in the face of such structural marginalization. To meet this goal, we conceptualize actions taken to resist structural inequality as acts of resistance to center immigrants’ agency in navigating and contesting their marginali…
Can’t Buy Me Health-Care Access: Qualitative Experiences of U.S.-Born Latinx Adults’ Health Insurance Coverage and Health-Care Use Post ACA
Latinx persons have lower levels of health insurance coverage than other racial and ethnic groups even after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Using 182 interviews from the American Voices Project, this study examines how U.S.-born Latinx adults experience health-care coverage and health-care use. Interview data demonstrate that health-care access is insufficient to ensure full health-care use. Health-care use costs…
Medical Legal Violence: Health Care and Immigration Enforcement against Latinx Noncitizens
From Children to Parents: How Education, Marital Status, and Gender Shape Upward Financial Transfers
Inequities in Excess Pandemic Mortality Among Documented and Undocumented Immigrants in California, 2020–2023
Objectives. To examine how excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic differed by legal status and its intersections with sociodemographic factors, overall and among working-age Latinos. Methods. Using death records from Californian adults (aged ≥ 25 years) with a natural cause of death, we estimated excess mortality between March 2020 and May 2023, using ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) models fit to prepandemic data spanning …
Asymmetric effects of transitioning into and out of housing hardship on depressive symptoms: Variation by gender and race/ethnicity
Medicine (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works)