The United States is experiencing a renewed period of immigration and immigrant policy activity as well heightened enforcement such policies. This intensified can affect various aspects health, including mental health. We use the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2015 Latino National Health Immigration Survey (n = 1,493) to examine relationship between health well-being. estimate series categorical regression models find that there are negative consequences associated with Latinos' perceptions...

Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N = 1,197), we examine relationship between physical mental health status three multidimensional measures of race: (1) street race, or how you believe other “Americans” perceive your race at level street; (2) socially assigned what call ascribed which refers to others usually classify in United States; (3) self-perceived self-classify on questionnaires. We engage intersectional inquiry by combining gender. find that only...

Scholarship in the area of group identity has expanded our understanding how consciousness and linked fate operate among racial ethnic minority populations United States. What is yet to be tested whether measures employed adequately capture multidimensional theoretical constructs associated with across populations. To address this question, we make use 2004 National Political Study ( N = 3,339) apply principal components analysis exploratory factor assess used for both are interchangeable,...

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase across the country, there is a concern about extent which this pandemic will affect students. Since March 2020, schools transitioned distance-learning format, unintentionally forced parents into new teaching roles as proxy educators. In brief, we explore association between distance learning and mental health of We find that with children who struggled experienced elevated distress. Given relationship teacher burnout student outcomes, argue importance...

Objective Develop and test measures of risk deportation mixed‐status families on women, infants, children (WIC) uptake. Mixed‐status is a situation in which some family members are U.S. citizens other the United States without proper authorization. Methods Estimate series logistic regressions to estimate WIC uptake by merging data from Fragile Families Child Wellbeing Survey with Immigration Customs Enforcement. Results The findings this study suggest that negatively associated among...

As the U.S. becomes increasingly diverse, new challenges to capturing this diversity emerge for survey researchers studying political attitudes and behavior. Sampling methods are no longer straightforward as simple random-digit-dial. Given confluence of changing demographics technology, we argue that should carefully consider a stratified listed/density quota-sampling approach multilingual surveys with large racial/ethnic minority samples. We examine 2016 Collaborative Multiracial...

Latino Americans are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to contract COVID-19 and face disproportionately high mortality rates when they the virus. What has not been well understood is impact having on economic well-being of families. Using Abriendo Puertas/Latino Decisions National Parent Survey (1195), we asked respondents how pandemic impacted their employment, savings, finances also them have coping make ends meet. descriptive analysis ordinal least squares regression, find that Latinos...

Abstract Immigrant sentiment, measured by the number of state laws enacted to curb flow undocumented immigration or expand rights immigrants, have been on a steady incline since September 11, 2001. Despite increased attention unauthorized immigration, little research has examined how immigrant policies are affecting group identity (i.e., linked fate). Linked fate is form collective that develops when people experience discrimination and marginalization. Using unique database merges 2012...

This manuscript examines how personally knowing a deportee and/or undocumented immigrant affects the mental health of Latina/o adults. Utilizing new survey sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at University New Mexico (n=1,493), we estimate series logistic regressions to understand personal connections immigrants are affecting Latinos using stress process theory. Our modeling approach takes into consideration socio-political, familial, cultural, and contexts...

A growing body of social science research has sought to conceptualize race as a multidimensional concept in which context, societal relations, and institutional dynamics are key components. Utilizing specially designed survey, we develop use multiple measures (skin color, ascribed race, discrimination experiences) capture "lived experience" assess their impact on Latinos' self-rated health status. We model these lived experience test the explanatory power both independently an integrated...

Discrimination based on one's racial or ethnic background is one of the oldest and most perverse practices in United States. While much this research has relied self-reported categories, a growing body attempting to measure race through socially-assigned race. Socially-assigned ascribed measures how individuals feel they are classified by other people. This paper draws socially assigned literature explores impact experiences with discrimination using 2011 nationally representative sample...

This paper assesses how ongoing historical racism and nativism as embedded within U.S. culture requires new important dialogues about the omnipresence of White supremacy its interconnected mechanisms that divide communities along lines race perceived in-group status. To assess role immigration it is understood through paradigms systemic racism, current study examines individual-level predictors indifference to BLM movement based on nativity status among Asian Americans—a racialized...

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed to increase health insurance access for the over 47 million uninsured people in U.S.A., among whom ethnoracial minorities had highest rates before ACA. Studies have shown that Latinos greatest improvements coverage under ACA, but many may be at a significant disadvantage, specifically due their nativity immigration status, as ACA explicitly excludes unauthorised immigrants from most of its provisions. Using 2015 Latino National...

This study examines how anti‐immigrant policies affect the physical health of Latina/os in United States. Merging two unique datasets: sum by state from 2005 to 2011 and a Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy nationally representative sample (n = 1,200), we estimate series logistic regressions understand legislations are affecting Latina/os. Our modeling approach takes into consideration Latinos’ diverse experience, context that is widely overlooked datasets treat as homogeneous...

This study leverages sample data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to assess how changes 2020 race question influence odds of multi-race classification for Black Latinos. Our results suggest that most Latino origin groups exhibit higher in modified compared pre-2020 question. The reclassification single-race Latinos as multiracial is particularly notable Dominicans and Hondurans. findings also reveal who provided multiple responses are ethno-racially distinct (i.e. Nigerian...

Within the growing literature seeking to understand civic and political engagement among racial ethnic minorities, our understanding of behavior American Indian Alaska Native's (AI/AN) remains limited. We use Current Population Survey Civic Engagement Voting Registration supplements (2006-2012) compare AI/AN voter registration, voting, overall other groups assess whether factors that predict higher levels vary across these populations. find a few key socio-economic status indicators uniquely...

Evidence is emerging of the pandemic disproportionately impacting communities color. This study investigates mental health distress among essential workers during coronavirus across race and ethnicity. We evaluate individual responses to patient questionnaire general anxiety disorder using a unique, nationally representative data set. Our findings suggest that healthcare reported highest rates at beginning pandemic. However, when evaluated ethnicity, we find Black report symptoms anxiety;...

Research demonstrates a causal link between increased exposure to racial discrimination and adverse health outcomes among diverse ethnic populations in the U.S. However, most research on Latinx communities overlooks how varies according individual accounts of their race is perceived by others. To address this gap, our study draws from critical theory analyze new multi-dimensional measure status – 'street race' its association with experiences. We analyzed data 2015 Latino National Health...

The Obama administration has simultaneously marketed the prospect of providing undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship through comprehensive immigration reform and overseen mass deportations mostly Latino immigrants. While it is clear that policy was highly influential voters in 2012, remains unclear how this political hypocrisy being interpreted by voters. As have risen steadily during administration, there been little research on personal connections influenced attitudes Latino/a...