Living Sin Papeles
Undocumented Latino Workers Negotiating Life in “Illegality
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6065044 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Maria Eugenia Fernández-Esquer (0000-0003-2122-9624, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA, autor correspondente), Maria Carolina Agoff (0000-0002-3809-460X, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CRIM Cuernavaca, Mexico), Isabel M Leal (0000-0002-0073-339X, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX, USA) |
| Ano | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 3-18 |
| Data de publicação | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0739-9863 • E-ISSN: 1552-6364 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0739986316679645 |
| OpenAlex | W2558699435 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 19 |
| Referências citadas | 20 |
In the United States, the construction of “illegality” of undocumented Latino workers is predicated upon multiple interacting social, economic, political, and sociological factors and consignment to an inferior social status, harsh living conditions, and exploitation. These “cumulative vulnerabilities” contribute to increased stressors and poor psychological health outcomes. However, little is known about these marginalized workers’ experience of negotiating life in “illegality.” This qualitative study adopts a social constructivist perspective to examine the strategies these undocumented workers use to manage “illegality” and psychosocial stress. We conducted four focus groups with 27 participants and in-depth interviews with eight of these participants. Thematic analysis combined with constant comparison yielded the overarching theme of living sin papeles (without legal papers). Findings reveal that, phenomenologically, sin papeles extends far beyond legal status, being a condition of ever-present instability, insecurity, and hypervigilance that affects the social, work, health, and living conditions of undocumented Latino immigrants
Focus group · Psychological resilience · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology
Vaya Con Dios
Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration
Hazardous work exposures and working conditions and the risk of serious injury among Latino day laborers in Houston, Texas (2014–2021)
Care that transcends legal citizenship
Examining the Macrosystem Level of Influence on Community Health Worker Effectiveness in the State of Nebraska
Public Pedagogy for Undocumented Migrant Children
Social justice and career development
Psychosocial Stressors of Unauthorized and Authorized Latine Immigrants
Double lockdown
The production of trans illegality
Another Brick in the Wall
Predicting the Influence of Situational and Immigration Stress on Latino Day Laborers’ Workplace Injuries
“Holidays Come, Sundays Come. It is Very Sad to be Alone”
Delineating the paradox
Undocumented immigrants and mental health
Unauthorized Mexican-Born Immigrants, Occupational Injuries, and the use of Medical Services in the United States
They Dumped Me Like Trash”
Large-scale immigration worksite raids
The solitude absorbs and it oppresses
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Black Skin, White Masks
Stigma
Psychosocial Stressors Associated with Mexican Migrant Farmworkers in the Midwest United States
Identifying Psychosocial Stressors of Well-Being and Factors Related to Substance Use Among Latino Day Laborers
Contesting criminality
Political violence, psychosocial trauma, and the context of mental health services use among immigrant Latinos in the United States
Battling Discrimination and Social Isolation
Estamos Traumados
A Double Disadvantage? Minority Group, Immigrant Status, and Underemployment in the United States
Criteria for assessing the trustworthiness of naturalistic inquiries
Becoming Less Illegal
Migration, "illegality," and health
Intangible obstacles
Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy
Another Politics of Life is Possible
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
No Soy Welferero
Structural Vulnerability and Health
| Obras citantes distintas | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 2,38 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 18 |