Mexican-Origin Children's Educational Expectations and Academic Performance: Disparities Across Maternal Legal Status and Children’s Immigrant Generation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeehye Kang ◽  
Ingrid P. Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Educational Expectations ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Immigrant Generation

Mexican-Origin Women’s Construction and Navigation of Racialized Identities: Implications for Health Amidst Restrictive Immigrant Policies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana M. W. LeBrón ◽  
Amy J. Schulz ◽  
Cindy Gamboa ◽  
Angela Reyes ◽  
Edna Viruell-Fuentes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Institutional Agents ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Border Community ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Immigrant Policies ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract This study examines how Mexican-origin women construct and navigate racialized identities in a post-industrial northern border community during a period of prolonged restrictive immigration and immigrant policies, and considers mechanisms by which responses to racialization may shape health. This grounded theory analysis involves interviews with 48 Mexican-origin women in Detroit, Michigan, who identified as being in the first, 1.5, or second immigrant generation. In response to institutions and institutional agents using racializing markers to assess their legal status and policing access to health-promoting resources, women engaged in a range of strategies to resist being constructed as an “other.” Women used the same racializing markers or symbols of (il)legality that had been used against them as a malleable set of resources to resist processes of racialization and form, preserve, and affirm their identities. These responses include constructing an authorized immigrant identity, engaging in immigration advocacy, and resisting stigmatizing labels. These strategies may have different implications for health over time. Findings indicate the importance of addressing policies that promulgate or exacerbate racialization of Mexican-origin communities and other communities who experience growth through migration. Such policies include creating pathways to legalization and access to resources that have been actively invoked in racialization processes such as state-issued driver’s licenses.

scholarly journals How does legal status matter for oral health care among Mexican-origin children in California?

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 730-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.S. Oropesa ◽  
Nancy S. Landale ◽  
Marianne M. Hillemeier
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Oral Health Care ◽  
Mexican Origin

Racializing “Illegality”: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding How Mexican-origin Women Navigate an Anti-immigrant Climate

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
San Juanita García
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
American Women ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
And Migration

By shedding light on how Mexicans are racialized, scholars have brought racism to the forefront of migration research. Still, less is known about how “illegality” complicates racialized experiences, and even less is known about how gender and class further complicate this process. Drawing on 60 interviews with Mexican-origin women in Houston, Texas, this research explores how documented and Mexican American women are racialized, the institutional contexts in which this process occurs, and how women’s racialized experiences relate to feelings of belonging and exclusion. Findings suggest a form of discrimination that is intersectional and imbued within an anti-immigrant climate. “Racializing illegality” unfolds within institutional contexts that include the workplace, criminal justice system, educational institutions, and health care settings. Both immigrant and Mexican American women experience feelings of belonging and exclusion but face more exclusion associated with an anti-immigrant sentiment. This article shows the gravity of “illegality” as it extends across legal status, nativity, race, and generation status. It also contributes to the race and migration literature by suggesting the need for an intersectional approach to studying “illegality.”

scholarly journals Growth trajectories of Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ educational expectations

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diamond Y. Bravo ◽  
Russell B. Toomey ◽  
Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor ◽  
Kimberly A. Updegraff ◽  
Lauden B. Jahromi
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Educational Expectations ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Educational Expectation ◽  
High School Degree

Pregnant and parenting adolescents are at significant risk for educational underachievement. Educational expectations play a critical role for understanding subsequent educational attainment; yet, limited empirical attention has been given to changes in educational expectations across the transition to parenthood among adolescent mothers. This longitudinal study explored stability and change in educational expectations across the transition to parenthood among 191 first-time pregnant Mexican-origin adolescents ( Mage = 16.76, SD = .98). The current study also examined how several contextually relevant risk and protective factors were associated with differential patterns of educational trajectories across this transition and subsequent educational attainment. Latent class growth analyses revealed three educational expectation trajectories: low and stable (< high-school degree), moderate and increasing (≈ associate degree), and high and increasing (≈ bachelor’s degree). Adolescent mothers in the low and stable group encountered several educational risk factors that partially explained their probability of membership in this trajectory and subsequent lower attainment. Conversely, probability of membership in the high and increasing expectations class was partially explained by adolescents’ on-track school status at the time of pregnancy and their mother figures’ educational expectations for their pregnant daughters. These findings have implications for understanding the malleable factors that help to explain why some adolescent mothers describe consistently high educational expectations and subsequent higher attainment, while others do not.

A study of academic performance by immigrant generation with an emphasis on the black immigrant experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Denise N Obinna
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Hispanic Students ◽  
Immigrant Generation ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Black Immigrant

Purpose – Instead of identifying them as a single monolithic group, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether the academic performance of black immigrants differs from African Americans as well as Asian and Hispanic students of comparable immigrant generation. By identifying how well black immigrant students perform on standardized tests, grade point averages (GPA) and college enrollment, this study proposes a more comprehensive look into this growing immigrant group. Design/methodology/approach – The research uses a data from the Educational Longitudinal Survey of high school sophomores conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. Data used in this study are from the baseline survey in 2002 and the second follow-up in 2006 when most students had graduated from high school. The methodology includes OLS, binary and ordered logistic regression models. Findings – The study finds that while second-generation blacks outperform the native-born generation on standardized tests, this does not extend to GPA or college enrollment. In fact, it appears that only second-generation Hispanic students have an advantage over their native-born counterparts on GPA and standardized tests. Furthermore, first and second-generation Asian immigrants do not show a higher likelihood of enrolling in college than their native-born counterparts nor do they report higher GPA. Originality/value – This paper sheds light on a growing yet understudied immigrant population as well as drawing comparisons to other immigrant groups of comparable generation.

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