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The Latino threat: constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation : Leo R. Chavez, Stanford University Press 2008. 272 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0804759342 ()
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This article is published in Journal of International Migration and Integration \/ Revue De L'integration Et De La Migration Internationale.The article was published on 2009-04-07. It has received 672 citations till now.read more
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More than culture: Structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health
TL;DR: It is argued for a shift from individual culture-based frameworks, to perspectives that address how multiple dimensions of inequality intersect to impact health outcomes, and suggestions for integrating intersectionality theory in future research on immigrant health.
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Legal violence: immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants
Cecilia Menjívar,Leisy J. Abrego +1 more
TL;DR: How Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws is analyzed to expose how the criminalization of immigrants at the federal, state, and local levels is not only exclusionary but also generates violent effects for individual immigrants and their families, affecting everyday lives and long-term incorporation processes.
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"Awakening to a Nightmare". Abjectivity and illegality in the lives of undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino immigrants in the United States
TL;DR: The authors argue that the practices of the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality (surveillance, immigration documents, employment forms, birth certificates, tax forms, drivers license, credit card applications, bank accounts, medical insurance, car insurance, random detentions, and deportations) close, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants.
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Status Struggles: Network Centrality and Gender Segregation in Same- and Cross-Gender Aggression
Robert Faris,Diane Felmlee +1 more
TL;DR: Literature on aggression often suggests that individual deficiencies, such as social incompetence, psychological difficulties, or troublesome home environments, are responsible for aggressive behavior as mentioned in this paper, which is not the case.
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Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy: Explaining the Post-1965 Surge from Latin America
Douglas S. Massey,Karen A. Pren +1 more
TL;DR: This article describes how restrictions placed on the legal entry of Latin Americans, and especially Mexicans, set off a chain of events that in the ensuing decades had the paradoxical effect of producing more rather than fewer Latino immigrants.
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Legal violence: immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants
Cecilia Menjívar,Leisy J. Abrego +1 more
TL;DR: How Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws is analyzed to expose how the criminalization of immigrants at the federal, state, and local levels is not only exclusionary but also generates violent effects for individual immigrants and their families, affecting everyday lives and long-term incorporation processes.
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"Awakening to a Nightmare". Abjectivity and illegality in the lives of undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino immigrants in the United States
TL;DR: The authors argue that the practices of the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality (surveillance, immigration documents, employment forms, birth certificates, tax forms, drivers license, credit card applications, bank accounts, medical insurance, car insurance, random detentions, and deportations) close, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants.
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Status Struggles: Network Centrality and Gender Segregation in Same- and Cross-Gender Aggression
Robert Faris,Diane Felmlee +1 more
TL;DR: Literature on aggression often suggests that individual deficiencies, such as social incompetence, psychological difficulties, or troublesome home environments, are responsible for aggressive behavior as mentioned in this paper, which is not the case.
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Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy: Explaining the Post-1965 Surge from Latin America
Douglas S. Massey,Karen A. Pren +1 more
TL;DR: This article describes how restrictions placed on the legal entry of Latin Americans, and especially Mexicans, set off a chain of events that in the ensuing decades had the paradoxical effect of producing more rather than fewer Latino immigrants.
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No Place to Belong Contextualizing Concepts of Mental Health Among Undocumented Immigrant Youth in the United States
TL;DR: The consequences of undocumented immigration status for those who grow up in the United States and the experiences of these undocumented members of the 1.5 generation are examined to better understanding the effects confusing and conflicting experiences of inclusion and exclusion have on their mental and emotional health.