Why and How Does Source Country Matter? The Effects of Home Countries and Immigrant Communities on Foreign-Born Student Achievement

The Surgeon General's report, “Culture, Race, and Ethnicity: A Supplement to Mental Health,” points to the need for subgroup specific mental health research that explores the cultural variation and heterogeneity of the Latino population. Guided by cognitive anthropological theories of culture, we utilized ethnographic interviewing techniques to explore cultural models of depression among foreign-born Mexican (n=30), Cuban (n=30), Columbian (n=30), and island-born Puerto Ricans (n=30), who represent the largest Latino groups in Florida. Results indicate that Colombian, Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican immigrants showed strong intragroup consensus in their models of depression causality, symptoms, and treatment. We found more agreement than disagreement among all four groups regarding core descriptions of depression, which was largely unexpected but can potentially be explained by their common immigrant experiences. Findings expand our understanding about Latino subgroup similarities and differences in their conceptualization of depression and can be used to inform the adaptation of culturally relevant interventions in order to better serve Latino immigrant communities.

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Carolina del Norte and the New South: Social Work Practice with New Latino Immigrant Communities

Advances in Social Work ◽

10.18060/3772 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 260-275

Author(s):

Lisa de Saxe Zerden ◽

Arianna Taboada ◽

Quentin Joshua Hinson

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Social Workers ◽

New South ◽

Historical Context ◽

Population Group ◽

Social Work Practice ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Foreign Born ◽

Complex Needs ◽

Latino Immigrant

Over the past decade, the Latino population in North Carolina has increased 111%. More than half of North Carolina Latinos are foreign-born and most face issues related to immigration, acculturation, and often, discrimination. This article provides a brief overview of the historical context in which social workers engaged with immigrant communities, and argues that the profession brings strengths and unique skills to address North Carolina’s Latino immigrant population, historically, and within the current context. Key social demographics of Latino populations, sociopolitical realities, as well as theoretical and methodological issues related to the complex needs of this diverse population group are addressed. Two examples of Latino vulnerability in North Carolina, HIV/AIDS and discriminatory local immigration enforcement practices, are discussed to further highlight the unique strengths and challenges social workers in North Carolina and the New South face when working with Latino immigrants.

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Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and Student Achievement: An Ordered Probit Analysis

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.708864 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Akbar Marvasti

Keyword(s):

Student Achievement ◽

Teaching Assistants ◽

Probit Analysis ◽

Ordered Probit ◽

Foreign Born

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Relationships between the Public and Crimmigration Entities in North Carolina: A 287(g) Program Focus

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity ◽

10.1177/2332649217700923 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 417-431 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Felicia Arriaga

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Foreign Born ◽

County Governments ◽

The Public ◽

Local Law Enforcement ◽

New Destination ◽

Local Law ◽

Immigration And Customs Enforcement

How does local law enforcement, with the aid of city and county governments, respond to racialized immigrant threat through policy implementation, namely, through adoption of intergovernmental agreements? More specifically, how is this response tailored for Latino immigrant communities, particularly in new destination communities? Across the country, scholars, activists, and politicians note the increasing use of local law enforcement to implement federal immigration enforcement measures through intergovernmental agreements, emphasizing the disproportionate impact on the Latino, more specifically the foreign-born Mexican, population. One such intergovernmental partnership is the 287(g) agreement between local law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yet little is known about the process through which counties adopt, implement, and maintain such intergovernmental partnerships and the state actors that make it all possible.

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Effects in Disguise: The Importance of Controlling for Constructs at Multiple Levels in Macro–Level Immigration and Crime Research

City and Community ◽

10.1111/cico.12343 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 1100-1118 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Javier Ramos ◽

Marin Wenger

Keyword(s):

Poisson Regression ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Prior Work ◽

Foreign Born ◽

Multiple Levels ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City ◽

Level Of Analysis ◽

Immigration And Crime

Contemporary research suggests that immigrant communities often have lower rates of crime despite their disadvantaged status. Yet prior work often examines the immigration and crime association using only one level of analysis without regard for how this relationship might vary when analyzed across multiple levels of analysis simultaneously. Research also suggests that the immigration–crime link varies across spatial contexts. Using hierarchical Poisson Regression among a sample of 6,660 tracts nested within 55 cities, we examine whether the relationship between immigration and crime varies when examined at the tract and city levels simultaneously. We also include a cross–level interaction in our model to test whether the tract–level association between immigration and crime varies by the size of the foreign–born population at the city level. Results show that the immigration–crime link depends on the level of analysis, such that the relationship is positive at the tract level but negative at the city level. However, we find no support for our cross–level interaction.

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Greater Diversity or Fewer Whites? Disentangling Heterogeneity and Non-White Share at Macro and Micro Levels

10.31235/osf.io/ve4aw ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Maria Abascal ◽

Flavien Ganter ◽

Delia Baldassarri

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Diversity ◽

Causal Effects ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Foreign Born ◽

And Behavior ◽

Attitudes And Behavior ◽

Ingroup Outgroup ◽

Racial Ethnic ◽

Threat Theory

Scholarship on the consequences of racial/ethnic diversity often claims that diversity undermines trust, participation and cooperation. This work has been criticized for its inability to discern the causal effects of diversity. We draw attention to a more elementary issue: most studies are unable to interpret associations between their outcomes of interest and diversity, as these may be due to associations with non-White or immigrant shares. We make the practical and theoretical case for preserving the distinction between diversity—i.e., mixture—and non-White or immigrant shares—e.g., percentage Black or percentage foreign-born—, and we warn scholars about the dangers of using language and measures associated with diversity, especially in contexts, like North America and Europe, where diversity strongly overlaps with non-White or immigrant shares. On a practical front, the policy recommendations that follow from the claim “greater diversity is associated with less prosociality” are different from those that follow from the claim “greater non-White share is associated with less prosociality among Whites.” On a theoretical front, most studies of diversity rely on theories that are predicated on ingroup/outgroup shares—most commonly intergroup conflict/threat theory—rather than on diversity; the predictions implied by popular theories, however, contradict those implied by claims about diversity. Importantly, two empirical obstacles undermine our capacity to disentangle associations with diversity from associations with non-White or immigrant shares. The first stems from the underrepresentation of predominately non-White (or predominately immigrant) communities in the real world. The second concerns our ability to infer that individual attitudes and behavior are correlated with diversity from correlations between macro-level outcomes and diversity. Finally, we spell out the kinds of data required to draw empirically sound conclusions about associations between diversity and social outcomes. With an appendix by Daniel Lacker.

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