Alejandro Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 82768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Morales |
| SIGNATURE | MORALES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8713-7100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 488 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Marketplace measurement: Farmers, farmers markets and ecosystem services
Purpose Farmers markets act as a nexus between farmers, community members and social values, and can foster significant community and environmental benefits. However, some of these benefits, including agricultural sustainability, are rarely measured or publicized, restricting the full potential of markets and their associated actors to generate public benefits. This study aims to consider how markets, planners and policymakers might address this …
Social embeddedness and food justice at farmers markets: The model farmers market program
Purpose Despite the progressive values espoused by farmers' market patrons, markets have been shown to be exclusive to low-income people of color. This paper examines a particular food security program at a farmers market to ask how social embeddedness and moral economy can be incorporated to dignify underrepresented groups at the market. Design/methodology/approach This case study uses an embeddedness framework to analyze the design of a communi…
Transpiration and photosynthesis of holm oak trees in southern Spain
“Dehesas”, the Iberian semi-natural woodlands based on large holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) trees, represent a key agroforestry system in Spain and Portugal sustaining relevant economic activities (e.g. “iberico” pork feeding, truffle) and ecosystem services. Despite of their importance, scarce information is still available regarding both the transpiration (Ep) and photosynthesis of holm oaks growing in dehesas and the effects of irrigation on these…
Differentiate or die: Reconstructing market(place) economies
Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses
Objective This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino‐owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of unregistered LOBs through a set of independent variables derived from entrepreneur demographics/firm characteristics utilizing a binomial logistic regressi…
Innovations in the Pedagogy of Food System Planning
The food system now occupies a prominent place in planning, and food systems pedagogical practice embraces virtually every planning subdiscipline, mirroring the central, and ever differentiating, role of food in society. This article tracks changes in food system pedagogical practices. We provide an analysis of prevailing themes in the pedagogical methods used in food systems classes, and why these particular strategies are suited to food plannin…
Learning from listservs: Collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the formation of distributed leadership for farmers' markets and the food movement
Computer-mediated communications, in particular listservs, can be powerful tools for creating social change—namely, shifting our food system to a more healthy, just, and localised model. They do this by creating the conditions—collaborations, interaction, self-reflection, and personal empowerment—that cultivate distributed leadership. In this article, we will show how the listserv hosted by the Farmers Market Coalition (FMC), a US-based non-profi…
Using children as informal interpreters in pediatric consultations
Purpose – Health care professionals (HCPs) face numerous barriers in providing services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients and their families. The purpose of this paper is to explore and expand on the limited scholarship concerning HCPs’ experiences using children as informal interpreters in pediatric consultations. Design/methodology/approach – Ten HCPs from five different fields participated in this study. They were interviewed over t…
Trans migrations: Exploring life at the intersection of transgender identity and immigration
In collaboration with a community-based organization, we interviewed 10 transgender women who immigrated to the United States from Latin America about their migration histories, access to work, social support networks, and experiences with discrimination in their native country and the United States. Findings revealed a link between gender identity and the need to migrate to the United States. Participants noted severe forms of violence that incl…
Formation of a Latino Grassroots Movement
When the city of Los Angeles banned gas-powered leaf blowers in 1996, the law sparked one of the most dynamic grassroots campaigns by Latino immigrants in recent history. Latino immigrant gardeners, working with a small group of Chicana/o activists, organized the Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles (ALAGLA), which pressured city leaders to reverse the ban. ALAGLA pursued its objectives by engaging in the political process, taki…
Personal and Familial Aspects of Perfectionism in Latino/a Students
This study investigated the relevance of both personal and familial aspects of perfectionism for Latino college students. The participants were 207 Latino college students (76% women, 24% men; M age = 21.13 years). Psychometric evaluations of the Almost Perfect Scale–Revised (APS-R) and Family Almost Perfect Scale (FAPS) provide promising support of their cultural validity for Latino students. Patterns of how personal and family dimensions of per…
Wisdom from Korean Reentry Counseling Professionals: A Phenomenological Study of the Reentry Process
Language Brokering Among Mexican-Immigrant Families in the Midwest: A Multiple Case Study
Language brokering (LB) is the act of translating and interpreting within immigrant families by children and adolescents for their parents, other family members, and other adults. Although LB is a common phenomenon among immigrant families in the United States, research regarding its impact on immigrant families mainly focuses on the experiences of language brokers only and not on their parents or immediate families. Thus, the purpose of this in-…
Culturally Competent Qualitative Research With Latino Immigrants
This article provides recommendations for conducting culturally competent qualitative research with Latino immigrants, a historically exploited group that represents more than half of all U.S. immigrants and is continuously growing. Limited research exists on Latino immigrants despite their large presence in the United States. The authors draw upon their qualitative research experiences to help researchers develop culturally competent awareness, …
The role of la familia on Mexican American men's college persistence intentions
Mexican American men lag behind academically. To that end, this study examined the mediating role of parental encouragement in the relation between familismo and college persistence intentions among 186 Mexican American college men. The mediation analysis suggested that parental encouragement fully, positively, and significantly mediated the relation between familismo and college persistence intentions for this sample of Mexican American college …
Planning and the Self-Organization of Marketplaces
The number of marketplaces in the United States is growing rapidly. This growth belies the long history of marketplaces and signals their reemergence as tools of planning practice. This article examines ways to plan marketplaces and how those strategies can help achieve various direct and indirect objectives of merchants, planners, and other professionals. The empirical case involves Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market and how merchants in this large…
Public Markets as Community Development Tools
Public markets were once essential parts of the cityscape and they are becoming so again. Markets serve several purposes, social, political, and economic, and so planners interested in multipurpose tools for development will be interested in public markets. Markets can help achieve a variety of goals including place-making, employment, and entrepreneurship. This article focuses on markets as tools of business incubation. Archival data and literat…
Pathways to Meaning: A New Approach to Studying Emotions at Work
Research on the emotional consequences of interactive service work remains inconclusive in large part because scholars have not analyzed the mechanisms that lead frontline employees to adopt the meanings disseminated by their employers. The authors argue that the theoretical framework best suited for remedying this situation is the negotiated order perspective. It suggests that whether employees adopt a corporate-sanctioned meaning, and with what…
Language and Use of Cancer Screening Services among Border and Non-Border Hispanic Texas Women
Women who selected to be interviewed in Spanish were less likely to report age-appropriate cancer examinations, health insurance and a regular health care provider than those who selected to be interviewed in English. Disparities in cancer screenings among vulnerable Hispanic populations could be reduced by promoting the establishment of a regular health care provider
The relationship between campus diversity, students' ethnic identity and college adjustment: A qualitative study
The present study was a qualitative exploration into the meaning of ethnic identity and its association with college adjustment in students attending ethnically diverse university campuses. The sample consisted of 103 participants recruited from 2 ethnically diverse universities in southern California. A constant comparative analysis of the interview data revealed 9 themes as being relevant to students' experiences of ethnicity within a multiethn…
Qualitative Research Designs: Selection and Implementation
Counseling psychologists face many approaches from which to choose when they conduct a qualitative research study. This article focuses on the processes of selecting, contrasting, and implementing five different qualitative approaches. Based on an extended example related to test interpretation by counselors, clients, and communities, this article provides a detailed discussion about five qualitative approaches- narrative research; case study res…
Language Brokering: An Integrative Review of the Literature
This article reviews the literature in the area of language brokering. Language brokers are children of immigrant families who translate and interpret for their parents and other individuals. Results suggest that language brokers possess unique characteristics that make them suitable for their role as the family’s translator and interpreter. Parents select the child language broker based on certain personal qualities. Language brokers translate a…
Radio programming: Station format and alternative models of the audience in the U.S.‐Mexico border region
The article analyzes the use of radio “classified‐ad” shows for the sale of goods and services. The article finds that in commercial radio, some Spanish language radio stations (SLRS) program communicative opportunities for listeners in the form of “classified‐ad” type shows on a regular basis. The article presents two significant finding: first, that program format decisions are organized by the “model of the audience” that station personnel hol…
Peddling policy: Street vending in historical and contemporary contest
Focuses on street vending in Chicago, in the USA, taking a historical perspective. Shows how it was used to alleviate unemployment in the volatile progressive era but then became mired in complaints about corruption and vice. Uses a case study of an entrepreneurial Mexican family and highlights the wisdom of earlier days by showing how street vending offers a series of choices that are different from the choices made by larger forms only in that …
Www.openair.org: Linking street vendors to the Internet
Presents a discussion of an Internet Web site started in reaction to attacks on an historic street market in Chicago, USA. Takes an advocate’s perspective rather than an academic one and shows how the site developed to provide information about street vending around the world. Discusses the success and problems of using the Internet for the purposes of helping the poor on a shoestring budget
Qualitative Research Designs: Selection and Implementation
Counseling psychologists face many approaches from which to choose when they conduct a qualitative research study. This article focuses on the processes of selecting, contrasting, and implementing five different qualitative approaches. Based on an extended example related to test interpretation by counselors, clients, and communities, this article provides a detailed discussion about five qualitative approaches- narrative research; case study res…
Language Brokering: An Integrative Review of the Literature
This article reviews the literature in the area of language brokering. Language brokers are children of immigrant families who translate and interpret for their parents and other individuals. Results suggest that language brokers possess unique characteristics that make them suitable for their role as the family’s translator and interpreter. Parents select the child language broker based on certain personal qualities. Language brokers translate a…
Language Brokering Among Mexican-Immigrant Families in the Midwest: A Multiple Case Study
Language brokering (LB) is the act of translating and interpreting within immigrant families by children and adolescents for their parents, other family members, and other adults. Although LB is a common phenomenon among immigrant families in the United States, research regarding its impact on immigrant families mainly focuses on the experiences of language brokers only and not on their parents or immediate families. Thus, the purpose of this in-…
Public Markets as Community Development Tools
Public markets were once essential parts of the cityscape and they are becoming so again. Markets serve several purposes, social, political, and economic, and so planners interested in multipurpose tools for development will be interested in public markets. Markets can help achieve a variety of goals including place-making, employment, and entrepreneurship. This article focuses on markets as tools of business incubation. Archival data and literat…
Trans migrations: Exploring life at the intersection of transgender identity and immigration
In collaboration with a community-based organization, we interviewed 10 transgender women who immigrated to the United States from Latin America about their migration histories, access to work, social support networks, and experiences with discrimination in their native country and the United States. Findings revealed a link between gender identity and the need to migrate to the United States. Participants noted severe forms of violence that incl…
The role of la familia on Mexican American men's college persistence intentions
Mexican American men lag behind academically. To that end, this study examined the mediating role of parental encouragement in the relation between familismo and college persistence intentions among 186 Mexican American college men. The mediation analysis suggested that parental encouragement fully, positively, and significantly mediated the relation between familismo and college persistence intentions for this sample of Mexican American college …
Culturally Competent Qualitative Research With Latino Immigrants
This article provides recommendations for conducting culturally competent qualitative research with Latino immigrants, a historically exploited group that represents more than half of all U.S. immigrants and is continuously growing. Limited research exists on Latino immigrants despite their large presence in the United States. The authors draw upon their qualitative research experiences to help researchers develop culturally competent awareness, …
Pathways to Meaning: A New Approach to Studying Emotions at Work
Research on the emotional consequences of interactive service work remains inconclusive in large part because scholars have not analyzed the mechanisms that lead frontline employees to adopt the meanings disseminated by their employers. The authors argue that the theoretical framework best suited for remedying this situation is the negotiated order perspective. It suggests that whether employees adopt a corporate-sanctioned meaning, and with what…
The relationship between campus diversity, students' ethnic identity and college adjustment: A qualitative study
The present study was a qualitative exploration into the meaning of ethnic identity and its association with college adjustment in students attending ethnically diverse university campuses. The sample consisted of 103 participants recruited from 2 ethnically diverse universities in southern California. A constant comparative analysis of the interview data revealed 9 themes as being relevant to students' experiences of ethnicity within a multiethn…
Peddling policy: Street vending in historical and contemporary contest
Focuses on street vending in Chicago, in the USA, taking a historical perspective. Shows how it was used to alleviate unemployment in the volatile progressive era but then became mired in complaints about corruption and vice. Uses a case study of an entrepreneurial Mexican family and highlights the wisdom of earlier days by showing how street vending offers a series of choices that are different from the choices made by larger forms only in that …
"Epistemic Reflections on the "Informal Economy
It is fascinating to think about the growth of the literature on the informal economy since Hart and Ferman and Ferman first considered the problem in very different contexts in the early 1970's. In fact some intellectual history would probably be appealing for students of this literature. Irrespective of the knowledge gained from conducting an intellectual history, social scientists should be aware that many, if not most, of the empirical and th…
Formation of a Latino Grassroots Movement
When the city of Los Angeles banned gas-powered leaf blowers in 1996, the law sparked one of the most dynamic grassroots campaigns by Latino immigrants in recent history. Latino immigrant gardeners, working with a small group of Chicana/o activists, organized the Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles (ALAGLA), which pressured city leaders to reverse the ban. ALAGLA pursued its objectives by engaging in the political process, taki…
Personal and Familial Aspects of Perfectionism in Latino/a Students
This study investigated the relevance of both personal and familial aspects of perfectionism for Latino college students. The participants were 207 Latino college students (76% women, 24% men; M age = 21.13 years). Psychometric evaluations of the Almost Perfect Scale–Revised (APS-R) and Family Almost Perfect Scale (FAPS) provide promising support of their cultural validity for Latino students. Patterns of how personal and family dimensions of per…
Pragmatism's Mundanity: Epistemic Foundations for Practicing Sociolegal Science
Alfonso Morales In 1890 T. C. Chamberlain wrote an essay on Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses, urging the rather commonsense idea that scholars should consider multiple hypotheses in order to avoid premature commitment to favorite theory (Chamberlain 1965 [1890]). Brian Tamanaha's project is superficially the same. His attention is not directed first or solely at method or theory; instead it is first and often directed at the epistemological …
Planning and the Self-Organization of Marketplaces
The number of marketplaces in the United States is growing rapidly. This growth belies the long history of marketplaces and signals their reemergence as tools of planning practice. This article examines ways to plan marketplaces and how those strategies can help achieve various direct and indirect objectives of merchants, planners, and other professionals. The empirical case involves Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market and how merchants in this large…
Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses
Objective This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino‐owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of unregistered LOBs through a set of independent variables derived from entrepreneur demographics/firm characteristics utilizing a binomial logistic regressi…
Innovations in the Pedagogy of Food System Planning
The food system now occupies a prominent place in planning, and food systems pedagogical practice embraces virtually every planning subdiscipline, mirroring the central, and ever differentiating, role of food in society. This article tracks changes in food system pedagogical practices. We provide an analysis of prevailing themes in the pedagogical methods used in food systems classes, and why these particular strategies are suited to food plannin…
Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge
Contents Part I. Critique of Liberalism Part II. Storytelling, Counterstorytelling, and Naming One's Own Reality Part III. Revisionist Interpretations of History and Civil Rights Progress Part IV. Critical Understanding of the Social Science Underpinnings of Race and Racism Part V. Crime Part VI. Structural Determinism Part VII. Race, Sex, Class, and Their Intersections Part VIII. Essentialism and Antiessentialism Part IX. Gay-Lesbian Queer Issue…
Differentiate or die: Reconstructing market(place) economies
Learning from listservs: Collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the formation of distributed leadership for farmers' markets and the food movement
Computer-mediated communications, in particular listservs, can be powerful tools for creating social change—namely, shifting our food system to a more healthy, just, and localised model. They do this by creating the conditions—collaborations, interaction, self-reflection, and personal empowerment—that cultivate distributed leadership. In this article, we will show how the listserv hosted by the Farmers Market Coalition (FMC), a US-based non-profi…
Using children as informal interpreters in pediatric consultations
Purpose – Health care professionals (HCPs) face numerous barriers in providing services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients and their families. The purpose of this paper is to explore and expand on the limited scholarship concerning HCPs’ experiences using children as informal interpreters in pediatric consultations. Design/methodology/approach – Ten HCPs from five different fields participated in this study. They were interviewed over t…
Language and Use of Cancer Screening Services among Border and Non-Border Hispanic Texas Women
Women who selected to be interviewed in Spanish were less likely to report age-appropriate cancer examinations, health insurance and a regular health care provider than those who selected to be interviewed in English. Disparities in cancer screenings among vulnerable Hispanic populations could be reduced by promoting the establishment of a regular health care provider
Uncertainty and the Organization of Street Vending Businesses
This paper reports preliminary findings about how households organize street vending businesses in response to varying sources and degrees of uncertainty. The thesis is that households organize themselves in different ways in response to different types of uncertainty associated with 1) earning different types of income and 2) differences as well as changes in intra‐household relationships. The important findings are twofold: first, that househol…
Estirpe y Estigma en Una Novela Chicana
The Rag Doll Plagues
Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America
Risk: A Sociological Theory.Niklas Luhmann , Rhodes Barrett
Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge
Contents Part I. Critique of Liberalism Part II. Storytelling, Counterstorytelling, and Naming One's Own Reality Part III. Revisionist Interpretations of History and Civil Rights Progress Part IV. Critical Understanding of the Social Science Underpinnings of Race and Racism Part V. Crime Part VI. Structural Determinism Part VII. Race, Sex, Class, and Their Intersections Part VIII. Essentialism and Antiessentialism Part IX. Gay-Lesbian Queer Issue…
Uncertainty and the Organization of Street Vending Businesses
This paper reports preliminary findings about how households organize street vending businesses in response to varying sources and degrees of uncertainty. The thesis is that households organize themselves in different ways in response to different types of uncertainty associated with 1) earning different types of income and 2) differences as well as changes in intra‐household relationships. The important findings are twofold: first, that househol…
"Epistemic Reflections on the "Informal Economy
It is fascinating to think about the growth of the literature on the informal economy since Hart and Ferman and Ferman first considered the problem in very different contexts in the early 1970's. In fact some intellectual history would probably be appealing for students of this literature. Irrespective of the knowledge gained from conducting an intellectual history, social scientists should be aware that many, if not most, of the empirical and th…
Pragmatism's Mundanity: Epistemic Foundations for Practicing Sociolegal Science
Alfonso Morales In 1890 T. C. Chamberlain wrote an essay on Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses, urging the rather commonsense idea that scholars should consider multiple hypotheses in order to avoid premature commitment to favorite theory (Chamberlain 1965 [1890]). Brian Tamanaha's project is superficially the same. His attention is not directed first or solely at method or theory; instead it is first and often directed at the epistemological …
Peddling policy: Street vending in historical and contemporary contest
Focuses on street vending in Chicago, in the USA, taking a historical perspective. Shows how it was used to alleviate unemployment in the volatile progressive era but then became mired in complaints about corruption and vice. Uses a case study of an entrepreneurial Mexican family and highlights the wisdom of earlier days by showing how street vending offers a series of choices that are different from the choices made by larger forms only in that …
Www.openair.org: Linking street vendors to the Internet
Presents a discussion of an Internet Web site started in reaction to attacks on an historic street market in Chicago, USA. Takes an advocate’s perspective rather than an academic one and shows how the site developed to provide information about street vending around the world. Discusses the success and problems of using the Internet for the purposes of helping the poor on a shoestring budget
Radio programming: Station format and alternative models of the audience in the U.S.‐Mexico border region
The article analyzes the use of radio “classified‐ad” shows for the sale of goods and services. The article finds that in commercial radio, some Spanish language radio stations (SLRS) program communicative opportunities for listeners in the form of “classified‐ad” type shows on a regular basis. The article presents two significant finding: first, that program format decisions are organized by the “model of the audience” that station personnel hol…
Language Brokering: An Integrative Review of the Literature
This article reviews the literature in the area of language brokering. Language brokers are children of immigrant families who translate and interpret for their parents and other individuals. Results suggest that language brokers possess unique characteristics that make them suitable for their role as the family’s translator and interpreter. Parents select the child language broker based on certain personal qualities. Language brokers translate a…
Language and Use of Cancer Screening Services among Border and Non-Border Hispanic Texas Women
Women who selected to be interviewed in Spanish were less likely to report age-appropriate cancer examinations, health insurance and a regular health care provider than those who selected to be interviewed in English. Disparities in cancer screenings among vulnerable Hispanic populations could be reduced by promoting the establishment of a regular health care provider
The relationship between campus diversity, students' ethnic identity and college adjustment: A qualitative study
The present study was a qualitative exploration into the meaning of ethnic identity and its association with college adjustment in students attending ethnically diverse university campuses. The sample consisted of 103 participants recruited from 2 ethnically diverse universities in southern California. A constant comparative analysis of the interview data revealed 9 themes as being relevant to students' experiences of ethnicity within a multiethn…
Qualitative Research Designs: Selection and Implementation
Counseling psychologists face many approaches from which to choose when they conduct a qualitative research study. This article focuses on the processes of selecting, contrasting, and implementing five different qualitative approaches. Based on an extended example related to test interpretation by counselors, clients, and communities, this article provides a detailed discussion about five qualitative approaches- narrative research; case study res…
Public Markets as Community Development Tools
Public markets were once essential parts of the cityscape and they are becoming so again. Markets serve several purposes, social, political, and economic, and so planners interested in multipurpose tools for development will be interested in public markets. Markets can help achieve a variety of goals including place-making, employment, and entrepreneurship. This article focuses on markets as tools of business incubation. Archival data and literat…
Pathways to Meaning: A New Approach to Studying Emotions at Work
Research on the emotional consequences of interactive service work remains inconclusive in large part because scholars have not analyzed the mechanisms that lead frontline employees to adopt the meanings disseminated by their employers. The authors argue that the theoretical framework best suited for remedying this situation is the negotiated order perspective. It suggests that whether employees adopt a corporate-sanctioned meaning, and with what…
The role of la familia on Mexican American men's college persistence intentions
Mexican American men lag behind academically. To that end, this study examined the mediating role of parental encouragement in the relation between familismo and college persistence intentions among 186 Mexican American college men. The mediation analysis suggested that parental encouragement fully, positively, and significantly mediated the relation between familismo and college persistence intentions for this sample of Mexican American college …
Planning and the Self-Organization of Marketplaces
The number of marketplaces in the United States is growing rapidly. This growth belies the long history of marketplaces and signals their reemergence as tools of planning practice. This article examines ways to plan marketplaces and how those strategies can help achieve various direct and indirect objectives of merchants, planners, and other professionals. The empirical case involves Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market and how merchants in this large…
Language Brokering Among Mexican-Immigrant Families in the Midwest: A Multiple Case Study
Language brokering (LB) is the act of translating and interpreting within immigrant families by children and adolescents for their parents, other family members, and other adults. Although LB is a common phenomenon among immigrant families in the United States, research regarding its impact on immigrant families mainly focuses on the experiences of language brokers only and not on their parents or immediate families. Thus, the purpose of this in-…
Culturally Competent Qualitative Research With Latino Immigrants
This article provides recommendations for conducting culturally competent qualitative research with Latino immigrants, a historically exploited group that represents more than half of all U.S. immigrants and is continuously growing. Limited research exists on Latino immigrants despite their large presence in the United States. The authors draw upon their qualitative research experiences to help researchers develop culturally competent awareness, …
Wisdom from Korean Reentry Counseling Professionals: A Phenomenological Study of the Reentry Process
Personal and Familial Aspects of Perfectionism in Latino/a Students
This study investigated the relevance of both personal and familial aspects of perfectionism for Latino college students. The participants were 207 Latino college students (76% women, 24% men; M age = 21.13 years). Psychometric evaluations of the Almost Perfect Scale–Revised (APS-R) and Family Almost Perfect Scale (FAPS) provide promising support of their cultural validity for Latino students. Patterns of how personal and family dimensions of per…
Trans migrations: Exploring life at the intersection of transgender identity and immigration
In collaboration with a community-based organization, we interviewed 10 transgender women who immigrated to the United States from Latin America about their migration histories, access to work, social support networks, and experiences with discrimination in their native country and the United States. Findings revealed a link between gender identity and the need to migrate to the United States. Participants noted severe forms of violence that incl…
Formation of a Latino Grassroots Movement
When the city of Los Angeles banned gas-powered leaf blowers in 1996, the law sparked one of the most dynamic grassroots campaigns by Latino immigrants in recent history. Latino immigrant gardeners, working with a small group of Chicana/o activists, organized the Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles (ALAGLA), which pressured city leaders to reverse the ban. ALAGLA pursued its objectives by engaging in the political process, taki…
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