Authorized and Unauthorized Immigrant Parents
The Impact of Legal Vulnerability on Family Contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6064079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K M Brabeck (0000-0002-9755-2885, Providence College, corresponding author), Erin Sibley (Boston College, MA, USA), M B Lykes (0000-0002-6772-8413, Boston College, MA, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-30 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9863 • E-ISSN: 1552-6364 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0739986315621741 |
| OpenAlex | W2220644681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 20 |
This study explores the social-ecological contexts of unauthorized immigrant families and their U.S.-born children, through examining how otherwise similarly low-income, urban, Latino immigrant families differ on the basis of the parents’ legal status and interactions with the immigration system. Drawing on social-ecological theory, variations based on parents’ legal vulnerability among exosystem-level experiences (e.g., parents’ occupational stress, discrimination experiences) and microsystem-level experiences (e.g., parents’ mental health, parenting stress) were explored. Structured interviews were conducted with 178 families with an immigrant parent from Mexico, Central America, and Dominican Republic, and a child (aged 7-10 years) born in the United States. Unauthorized parents reported statistically higher occupational stress, ethnicity-based discrimination, challenges learning English, immigration challenges, and legal status challenges, and lower use of social services, when compared with authorized parents. The groups did not differ on microsystem factors (e.g., parent mental health, and parenting, marital, and family stress
Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Immigration · Marital status · Mental health · Occupational safety and health · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Sociology · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |