“One Day on the Red Hills of Georgia”: The Effects of Immigration Status on Latino Migrants’ Experiences of Discrimination, Utilization of Public Services, and Attitudes toward Acculturation
This study documents the experiences and identities of undocumented Spanish-speaking migrants in Georgia vis-à-vis their counterparts who have legal status. Structured interviews were used to collect data from 127 adults (49 percent undocumented at their time of arrival and 38 percent undocumented a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Repositorio: | Memoria Institucional CISAN, Repositorio Institucional, UNAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ru.micisan.unam.mx:123456789/19800 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ru.micisan.unam.mx/handle/123456789/19800 http://dx.doi.org/10.20999/nam.2013.c004 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | CIENCIAS SOCIALES North America 5 immigration acculturation immigration status migration Georgia mexican latino inmigración aculturación estatus migratorio mexicano América del Norte |
| Sumario: | This study documents the experiences and identities of undocumented Spanish-speaking migrants in Georgia vis-à-vis their counterparts who have legal status. Structured interviews were used to collect data from 127 adults (49 percent undocumented at their time of arrival and 38 percent undocumented at the time of data collection) regarding their experience of discrimination utilization of services identity preferences mental health and beliefs in five domains: vulnerability injustice distrust superiority and helplessness. Significant immigration status differences emerged for education income utilization of some city services and a few of the belief scales. However the documented and undocumented samples were more similar than different. |
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