scholarly journals “It’s Worse to Breathe It Than to Smoke It”: Secondhand Smoke Beliefs in a Group of Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8630
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Arcury ◽  
Grisel Trejo ◽  
DaKysha Moore ◽  
Timothy D. Howard ◽  
Sara A. Quandt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Secondhand Smoke ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Central American Immigrants ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Saliency Analysis ◽  
Depth Interviews

This analysis describes beliefs about secondhand smoke and its health effects held by Mexican and Central American immigrants in North Carolina. Data from 60 semistructured, in-depth interviews were subjected to saliency analysis. Participant discussions of secondhand smoke centered on four domains: (1) familiarity and definition of secondhand smoke, (2) potency of secondhand smoke, (3) general health effects of secondhand smoke, and (4) child health effects of secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke was generally believed to be more harmful than primary smoke. Mechanisms for the potency and health effects of secondhand smoke involved the smell of secondhand smoke, secondhand smoke being an infection and affecting the immune system, and personal strength being protective of secondhand smoke. Understanding these health beliefs informs a framework for further health education and intervention to reduce smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in this vulnerable population.

Latinos/as and Religious Identities in the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlene M. Sanchez-Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Central American Immigrants ◽  
Cuban Americans ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the complex melding of traditions that make up contemporary religious identities among Latinos/as in the United States. Although Latinos/as are largely still Catholic, Protestantism is a growing presence. Examining various Latino/a groups by nationalities (such as Mexican Americans and Cuban Americans), geographic regions (such as Caribbean or Central American immigrants), and religious traditions (Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and Muslims), it becomes evident that transnational links have shaped, maintained, and propelled religious life for over a century. Transnationalism does not alter religious identities evenly. Some Latino/a groups maintain stronger ties for longer times; for others, the rates of acculturation mean that there are generational differences that affect one’s religious identity. The chapter concludes with a look at the impact of the “nones” among American Latinos/as.

"You're the Anthropologist…You know What to Write": Collaborations with the Maya Community of New Bedford, Massachusetts

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Lisa Knauer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Central American Immigrants

Last year, my collaborator Adrian Ventura, director of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (Workers' Community Center, or CCT), asked me to write a letter to an elected official on the organization's behalf. Adrian is a Maya K'iche', the largest of the 22 Maya ethnicities in Guatemala, and the CCT is an immigrant workers' rights organization in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He wanted to ensure that the letter clearly explained the organization's analysis of why Central American immigrants, and especially the Guatemalan Maya, had come to the United States.1 "We didn't come for the American dream," he reminded me. I asked him what, specifically, he wanted in the letter. "Ah, Lisa," he responded, with a bit of exasperation. "You're the anthropologist. You've been with us so long, you know what to write."

scholarly journals The Categorized and Invisible: The Effects of the ‘Border’ on Women Migrant Transit Flows in Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Angulo-Pasel
Keyword(s):  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Violent Relationships ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Individual Body

In an increasingly globalized world, border control is continuously changing. Nation-states grapple with ‘migration management’ and maintain secure borders against ‘illegal’ flows. In Mexico, borders are elusive; internal and external security is blurred, and policies create legal categories of people whether it is a ‘trusted’ tourist or an ‘unauthorized’ migrant. For the ‘unauthorized’ Central American woman migrant trying to achieve safe passage to the United States (U.S.), the ‘border’ is no longer only a physical line to be crossed but a category placed on an individual body, which exists throughout her migration journey producing vulnerability as soon as the Mexico–Guatemala boundary is crossed. Based on policy analysis and fieldwork, this article argues that rather than protecting ‘unauthorized’ migrants, which the Mexican government narrative claims to do, border policies imposed by the state legally categorize female bodies in clandestine terms and construct violent relationships. This embodied illegality creates forced invisibility, further marginalizing women with respect to finding work, and experiences of sexual violence and abuses by migration actors. The analysis focuses on three areas: the changing definition of ‘borders’; the effects of categorization and multiple vulnerabilities on Central American women; and the dangers caused by forced invisibility.

Structural Vulnerability and Occupational Injury Among Latinx Child Farmworkers in North Carolina

2021 ◽  
pp. 104829112110175
Author(s):  
Taylor J. Arnold ◽  
Thomas A. Arcury ◽  
Sara A. Quandt ◽  
Dana C. Mora ◽  
Stephanie S. Daniel
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
Workplace Injury ◽  
Hidden Population ◽  
Depth Interviews

Children as young as ten-years-old can legally work as hired farm labor in the United States. In North Carolina, many hired children are part of the Latinx farmworker community. Agriculture is a hazardous industry, and child workers experience high rates of injury, illness, and mortality. As part of a community-based participatory research study, we draw from thirty in-depth interviews with Latinx child farmworkers aged ten to seventeen to describe their experiences of personal and observed workplace injury and close calls. Nearly all child workers had experienced or observed some form of injury, with several reporting close calls that could have resulted in severe injury or fatality. Overall, children reported a reactive approach to injury prevention and normalized pain as part of the job. Highlighting Latinx child farmworkers’ structural “vulnerability, this analysis contextualizes understanding of workplace injury among this largely hidden population. We offer policy recommendations to protect and support these vulnerable workers.

(Mis)trusting the Process: How Post-Disaster Home Buyout Processes Can Degrade Public Trust

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Louise Schwaller ◽  
Leah Campbell ◽  
Mai Thi Nguyen ◽  
Gavin Smith
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Program Success ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Post Disaster

Abstract Federally funded housing buyout programs are the dominant method of government-supported retreat in the United States. Done correctly, buyouts can reduce pre-disaster vulnerability and facilitate post-disaster recovery. However, the success of buyout programs hinges on successful coordination and implementation by local administrators, who represent buyout participants, manage the buyout process at the community level, and connect them to state and federal resources. Because of this, trust between local administrators and the members of their communities is crucial for project participation and successful outcomes. While local administrators play a critical role in the buyout program, their role in building trust throughout the process has been an understudied aspect of the buyout literature. To address this gap, our paper looks at the conditions following Hurricane Matthew’s landfall in North Carolina, USA in 2016 through in-depth interviews with 18 local HMGP administrators, and an analysis of over 300 local newspaper articles to analyze how trust is built and lost in the buyout process. Our findings indicate that a lack of program clarity, unclear communication about the program’s guidelines across all levels of governments, and extended timeframes deteriorated public trust in a manner that hindered program success and diminished program results.

scholarly journals Doxxing, Privacy and Gendered Harassment. The Shock and Normalization of Veillance Cultures

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Stine Eckert ◽  
Jade Metzger-Riftkin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Depth Interviews

We conducted 15 in-depth interviews with women and men in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, and the United States who were victims of doxxing. The goal was to understand their experiences, their responses, and the consequences they faced. We understand doxxing as a complex, gendered communicative process of harassment. Doxxers use digital media technologies to expose personal information without consent given by those to whom the personal information belongs. We apply a feminist approach to surveillance studies to doxxing, focusing on the constructions of daily, habitual, and ubiquitous assemblages of veillances that disproportionately impact vulnerable individuals. We found that gendered aspects shaped the flow and suspected intent of doxxing and subsequent harassment. Victims experienced uncertainty, loss of control, and fear, while law enforcement and social media providers only helped in a few cases to pursue doxxers or remove unwanted personal information. We ultimately extend the definition of doxxing by considering the ubiquitous nature of information shared online in gendered veillance cultures. Our findings lead us to advocate for protecting the contextual integrity of entering personal information into expected, intentional, or desired spaces.

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