Journal article
“It felt like hitting rock bottom”: A qualitative exploration of the mental health impacts of immigration enforcement and discrimination on US-citizen, Mexican children
Latino studies, pp 1-25
15 May 2023
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Abstract
Latino immigrant families in the United States were disproportionately affected by intensified interior immigration enforcement under the Trump administration. US-citizen children are victimized by policies targeting their immigrant parents; research is sparse regarding how these polices affect children who experience parental deportation
and
children who are at risk for parental deportation. Additionally, anti-immigrant rhetoric can result in increased discrimination that also threatens children’s psychological health. This qualitative study (N = 22) explores children’s lived experiences of discrimination, parental deportation or threat of parental deportation, and perceived impacts on mental health. Interviews conducted from 2019 to 2020 revealed that children who are directly affected by or at risk for parental deportation experience detrimental impacts to their psychological well-being. Children experience discrimination as Latinos and children of immigrants, which is also detrimental to their mental/emotional health. Incorporating children’s perspectives is critical to informing public health interventions. Findings demonstrate the need for family-friendly immigration reform.
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- Title
- “It felt like hitting rock bottom”: A qualitative exploration of the mental health impacts of immigration enforcement and discrimination on US-citizen, Mexican children
- Creators
- Jamile Tellez Lieberman - Nueva Esperanza, Inc., Philadelphia, USACarmen R. Valdez - Austin, USAJessie Kemmick Pintor - Philadelphia, USAPhilippe Weisz - HIAS Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USAAmy Carroll-Scott - Philadelphia, USAKevin Wagner - Austin, USAAna P. Martinez-Donate - Philadelphia, USA
- Publication Details
- Latino studies, pp 1-25
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Health Management and Policy; Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000987936700002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85159363240
- Other Identifier
- 991020525810804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Sociology