Culture, Identity, and Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Rothe ◽  
Andres J. Pumariega
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Special Populations ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Immigrant Narratives

This chapter presents conclusions and future directions on culture, identity, and mental health, including the importance of identity and culture, separations and mourning as an important part of the immigrant experience, immigration-related separations, understanding acculturation, transnational identities, pilgrimages, and return migrations, understanding and treating refugees and special populations, criminality among immigrants to the United States, immigration and race, American narratives and immigrant narratives, treatment of immigrants and the children of immigrants, alternative futures for cultural identity – intercultural future and tribalistic future.

Changing Occupational Characteristics of U.S. Immigrants

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon F. De Jong ◽  
Marilou C. Legazpi Blair
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Occupational Characteristics ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
America South ◽  
Skilled Immigrant

Although the proportion of legal immigrants to the United States reporting an occupation remained nearly stable from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, there was a decline in the proportion of immigrant workers admitted with professional and technical occupations — a trend that the 1990 Immigration Act seeks to address in this decade. Using 1972 and 1986 United States Immigration and Naturalization Service public use data, this analysis shows that a major explanation for the decline is the recomposition of immigrant worker streams; notably large increases in admissions from Mexico and Central America, South America and the Caribbean vs. Asian workers; and increases in immediate family numerically exempt and sixth preference new arrivals and older workers — all categories with a low proportion of professional and technical workers. Contrary to expectations, immigrants admitted with family preference visas recorded an increase in professional and technical workers, even though the proportion of highly skilled immigrant workers in this admission category is still quite low.

Telemental Health Delivery for Rural Native American Populations in the United States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn S. Sidhu ◽  
Chris Fore ◽  
Jay H. Shore ◽  
Erin Tansey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Telemental Health ◽  
Treatment Model ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Viable Treatment

Telemental Health is a viable treatment model for delivering quality mental health care to Native American communities where the burden of mental health conditions and difficulty accessing care continue. This chapter reviews the available evidence supporting the acceptability and efficacy of Telemental health in Native American groups. While many barriers to the use of Telemental Health in Native communities exist, there are simultaneously many facilitators of this treatment model. Future directions include addressing these barriers, improving collaboration with Native communities, ensuring Telemental Health remains financially viable, and using technology to expand the reach of this treatment modality.

Uprootedness as (Cruel and Unusual) Punishment

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Zaibert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration

In spite of some protestations to the contrary, some of the practices that the United States immigration law permits are punitive. They are, moreover, terribly severe. If American citizens were to be treated in the ways in which some noncitizens are treated in the United States, they would be victims of cruel and unusual punishment. The paper seeks to show the implausibility of the euphemistic maneuvers that seek to deny this fact, by appealing to arguments put forth by the United States Supreme Court. In particular, the paper argues that the reasons why the United States Supreme Court considers expatriation to be cruel and unusual punishment apply as well to some instances of deportation.

scholarly journals Ganged Up On: How the US immigration system penalises and fails to protect Central American minors who are trafficked for criminal activity by gangs

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-122
Author(s):  
Katherine Soltis ◽  
Madeline Taylor Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
Mara Salvatrucha ◽  
The Us ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Us Immigration

This article addresses the failures of the United States immigration system to protect Central American minors who were trafficked for exploitation in criminal activities by gangs. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which the US immigration system denies humanitarian protection to Central American minors who were forced to participate in criminal activity by the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street gangs, and instead detains them. The article will examine this trend in the context of a larger proclivity to criminalise immigration in the US, particularly minors fleeing violence in Central America. We draw upon our experience representing Central American minors in their applications for humanitarian immigration relief to highlight how the US immigration system fails to protect this vulnerable population and penalises these children for their own victimisation.

Revocation of Citizenship in the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Herzog
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World View ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
American Concept

AbstractRogers Brubaker in his 1992 path-breaking study proposes a theory of citizenship as a coherent world view: the French liberal model identifies citizenship as a community based on territoriality; the German ethno-nationalist model bases citizenship on blood-line. Rogers Smith challenged Brubaker and, based on a 1997 study of United States immigration laws, claims that the American concept of citizenship is a non-coherent mix of various principles: liberal, ethno-nationalist and republican at the same time. Both authors inspired a great deal of research, but all studies so far have attempted to adjudicate between the two competing theories by looking at inclusionary practices, at the various ways citizenship is granted in various countries, and their results are inconclusive. This paper reports findings for a study which looked at exclusion. The data on United States laws and legislative debates about the states’ rights to revoke, and citizens’ privilege to renounce, citizenship lends support to Rogers Smith’s arguments regarding inclusion and citizenship, while underlining war as an independent sociological source for the genesis, persistence and dispersion of these bundles or equilibria.

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