Depression Among Mexican Men on the Migration Frontier: The Role of Family Separation and Other Structural and Situational Stressors

This chapter discusses the ways in which the U.S. government created an alternative archive when it recorded Mexicanas/os' voices in the "official" record during land grant adjudication proceedings in the mid- to late nineteenth century. The testimonio of landowner María Cleofas Bóne de López serves as a prime focus in the chapter to emphasize the ways in which marriage to Mexican women was one way that both Anglo and Mexican men gained access to and amassed material property. Through this and other key cases, the chapter emphasizes that males' land ownership was often predicated on relationships to and with Mexican women and the ways Mexican men were effeminized within the U.S. legal system. The depositions serve as testimonials to the integral role of gender in the history of property ownership and dispossession.

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Interaction between incarcerated adolescents and their grandparents in the processes of living and ageing

Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia ◽

10.1590/1981-22562019022.180217 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Helenice de Moura Scortegagna ◽

Roger Egídio Brum Nunes ◽

Nadir Antonio Pichler ◽

Marilene Rodrigues Portella

Keyword(s):

Rio Grande ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Rio Grande Do Sul ◽

Detention Center ◽

Family Separation ◽

Family Culture ◽

Reference Space ◽

Potential Part ◽

Incarcerated Adolescents

Abstract Objective: To describe the interactions between incarcerated adolescents and their grandparents during the processes of living and ageing. Method: An exploratory, descriptive, qualitative study was carried out, based on a semi-structured interview with 11 adolescents aged from 17 to 20 incarcerated in a youth detention center in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The discourse of the adolescents was analyzed based on content themes. Results: Categories that were both intertwined and complete among themselves were constructed: a) grandparents as affective support for incarcerated adolescents and b) relationships of reciprocity and healthy coexistence between the adolescents and their grandparents. Conclusion: The results showed that despite relational conflicts, the participants perceived the role of their grandparents in their lives as beneficial, as they offer a familial reference space, providing shelter and affection against the anxieties of the adolescents and those related to their families. This form of coexistence was a potential part of the development of young people in conflict with the law, and a favorable environment of mutual exchanges and learning, and as figures continuing the transgenerational family culture. Family separation was mentioned as a recurring and underreported process in the lives of adolescents and their grandparents.

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Gender, Education, and Physical Health among Adults in Central Mexico

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0731121419836964 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 181-200

Author(s):

Bridget K. Gorman ◽

Claire E. Altman ◽

Rudy Guerra ◽

Sergio Chavez

Keyword(s):

Waist Circumference ◽

Education And Health ◽

Resource Substitution ◽

Gender Education ◽

Strong Negative Association ◽

Contradictory Evidence ◽

And Migration ◽

The Relationship ◽

Mexican Men

In this paper, we apply an intersectional perspective and test whether resource substitution, which predicts that education will be more strongly related to the health of women than men, is operating among adults included in the 2014 Study of Health and Migration in Mexico (SHMM). Findings revealed modest and somewhat contradictory evidence regarding the potential role of resource substitution. For Mexican women, rates of elevated waist circumference are very high regardless of education level, but for hypertension, there is a strong, negative association with education even after adjustment for controls. Different patterns emerge for Mexican men as regression models show that the probability of both elevated waist circumference and hypertension is higher among the more educated. Overall, results suggest that education is only health protective for women’s risk of hypertension. In sum, this work highlights gender specificity in the relationship between education and health in Mexico, and that this relationship varies by health outcome.

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(Re)settlement, Displacement, and Family Separation: Contributors to Health Inequality in Nunavut

The Northern Review ◽

10.22584/nr42.2016.004 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 47-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gwen Healey

Keyword(s):

Health Inequality ◽

Family Relationships ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

Family Separation ◽

Face To Face ◽

Knowledge Framework ◽

The North ◽

Forced Relocation ◽

Inuit Knowledge

A series of relocation events in the Canadian Arctic in the mid-twentieth century contributed to widespread disruption of Inuit families. The objectives of this article are to: 1) provide a synthesis of the literature and oral histories about Inuit and Western academic perspectives on family attachments; 2) share findings from a recent study on perspectives of family relationships, which interviewed Inuit parents—many of whom were children at the time the relocation events in the 1950s and 1960s; and 3) discuss the role of severed family attachments on health inequality in Nunavut. The research was conducted within an Indigenous knowledge framework, specifically, the Piliriqatigiinniq Partnership Community Health Research Model (Healey & Tagak Sr., 2014). Data were collected in face-to-face interviews with twenty Inuit parents in three Nunavut communities. An analytical approach building on the concept of Iqqaumaqatigiinniq (all knowing coming into one), “immersion and crystallization,” was used to identify story elements in the data. Parents in the study identified the experience of forced relocation and/or attendance at residential school as traumatic events for families. These events broke the chain of Inuit knowledge transmission, which participants blamed for health inequalities observed in northern communities today. Participants who did not experience relocation attributed their confidence and ability to communicate health knowledge to the bonds they had with their children. Reclaiming and revitalizing Inuit attachment perspectives is part of the path to overcoming the trauma that Canadian Inuit families have experienced, and which is a contributor to health inequality in the region. Focusing on wellness-promoting pathways in our communities can, in turn, help reduce the health inequality gap in the North.

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Orphanage Trafficking and Child Protection in Emergencies in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis of the 2015 Earthquake and the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond ◽

10.1177/2349300320975547 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 234930032097554

Author(s):

Martin Punaks ◽

Samjyor Lama

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Child Protection ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

The Other ◽

Family Preservation ◽

Specific Reference ◽

Children And Families ◽

Family Separation ◽

Humanitarian Emergencies

This article compares and contrasts two humanitarian emergencies and their impact on Nepal: these are the Nepal earthquake in 2015 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It explains how each emergency has impacted children without parental care or at risk of family separation, with specific reference to orphanage trafficking, voluntourism, child institutionalisation and family preservation. In relation to each emergency, the article considers the role of disaster preparedness; the roles of the Nepal government, the international community and civil society; and the significance of one emergency being localised, while the other is a global phenomenon. It also shows that while these emergencies have increased the risk of harm and exploitation for children and families, they have also driven forward innovation in child protection practices, particularly through the use of reintegration, case management and family preservation programmes.

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Faith, Work, and Reciprocity: Listening to Mexican Men Caregivers of Elderly Family Members

American Journal of Men s Health ◽

10.1177/1557988316657049 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 1985-1993 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Douglas C. Nance ◽

Maria Isabel Rivero May ◽

Luis Flores Padilla ◽

Mario Moreno Nava ◽

Alma Laura Deyta Pantoja

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Family Caregiving ◽

Religious Faith ◽

Framework Analysis ◽

Life Issues ◽

Field Notes ◽

End Of Life Issues ◽

Gender Variations ◽

Mexican Men

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the role of Mexican men caregivers of older adults. Studies investigating male caregiving practice in Mexico are lacking. Listening events for older adults and family caregivers were held in six cities, obtaining an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 121 participants—81 older adults and 57 primary caregivers (including 17 older adults). Focus groups discussed end-of-life issues and challenges of care. Discussions were audio recorded and field notes were made. Framework Analysis was used to analyze data. Nationally, 37% of the caregivers were men. In the metropolitan area of Mexico City, 57% of caregivers were men. The men caregivers discussed their roles and experiences. The results were categorized into three themes: (a) reciprocity in family caregiving, (b) a practical work-oriented attitude toward caregiving, and (c) strong religious faith. Caregiving formed an important part of their masculine role. Stereotypes related to gender and care should be reexamined. Further research is needed to explore gender variations in caregiving, evolving gender roles, and needs for support and services.

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Transnational ties and the health of sub-Saharan African migrants: The moderating role of gender and family separation

Social Science & Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.09.009 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 168 ◽

pp. 63-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Patience A. Afulani ◽

Jacqueline M. Torres ◽

May Sudhinaraset ◽

Joseph Asunka

Keyword(s):

Family Separation ◽

African Migrants ◽

Transnational Ties ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Moderating Role

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Women Stay on the Farm No More: Changing Patterns of Rural–Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x00000525 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 347-352 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Josef Gugler

Keyword(s):

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Urban Migration ◽

Family Separation ◽

Domestic Servants ◽

Second Sex ◽

Changing Patterns ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Forced Labour ◽

Cash Economy

Women could be said to be ‘the second sex in town’ in colonial Africa in that men predominated in the urban centres spawned by the political economy of colonialism. An explanation has to consider both employment and family separation. Although colonial governments, missions, commercial firms, and mines recruited men, it is not clear to what extent this was a matter of preference on the part of the major employers rather than the response of peasant households. Not at issue are the reasons for the latter's integration into the cash economy and the rôle of coercion, whether in the form of forced labour or indirectly through the imposition of tax. But what considerations were borne in mind when households deliberated about which of their members to dispatch? Whatever the part played by both employers and suppliers in determining the composition of the labour supply – and this so far totally neglected topic demands research – the result was that in many, if not all, African colonies, almost as a rule, domestic servants, secretaries, and nurses were male.

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