Resilience in Context: The Association between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Cumulative Positive Childhood Experiences among Justice-Involved Youth

Alongside the research on the impact of cumulative trauma on later outcomes, scholars have started to investigate how an accumulation of protective factors may buffer adverse outcomes. However, these studies have failed to consider how one’s social context, in particular the levels of social disorganization and immigrant concentration present, may be associated with the accumulation of protective factors. Using data from the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, the current study examines how both youth- and neighborhood-level factors predict cumulative positive childhood experiences (PCEs) among justice-involved youth. The results indicated that while immigrant concentration is unassociated with PCE accumulation, social disorganization is negatively associated with the number of PCEs, holding all else constant.

Narrativas familiares e institucionales sobre las barreras de acceso a centros escolares en familias migrantes: Un estudio de caso en España

This article explores the barriers of access in migrant families to primary education, starting from the school institution itself and exacerbated upon arrival. Based on qualitative methodology of interviews to directors of schools of high immigrant concentration and migrant families in Granada, we analyze the discourses on educational policies in charge of the offer and demand for school vacancies and system regulations conditioning school choice. We also discuss the influence of the schools themselves in their role as students’ hosts and on their increasing autonomy to manage schooling vacancies and provide specialized education –special mention to charter schools-. Results obtained show the “institutional barriers” faced by families because of their migratory status when choosing school for their children, at two levels: structural or systemic, due to access regulations that penalize these families to a greater degree; and in particular, as a consequence of discriminatory practices of certain schools towards them.

Is It Dangerous to Live in Neighborhoods with More Immigrants? Assessing the Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Crime Patterns

The immigration-crime nexus has been the subject of much empirical attention and research findings consistently indicate that neighborhoods with large immigrant populations exhibit comparatively lower crime rates. However, it is still imperative to explain how these effects take place in different contexts of structural circumstances of communities. This study aims to examine the effects of immigrant concentration as well as its conditioning effects for racial/ethnic segregation and concentrated disadvantage in Dallas, Texas. Results show that immigrant concentration is negatively associated with crime counts and, most importantly, that immigrant concentration moderates the effect of structural conditions on crime. Generally, immigration has crime-reducing effects and helps ameliorate the negative effects of structural conditions on crime.