No Place to Belong: Contextualizing Concepts of Mental Health Among Undocumented Immigrant Youth in the United States
No Place to Belong: Contextualizing Concepts of Mental Health Among Undocumented Immigrant Youth in the United States
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DOI：
10.1177/0002764213487349
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Dedios-Sanguineti, Maria Cecilia
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作者：
Gonzales, Roberto G.;Suarez-Orozco, Carola;Dedios-Sanguineti, Maria Cecilia
本文探讨无证移民身份对那些在美国长大的人的影响。目的是研究无证移民身份与心理和情感健康之间的关系。我们的工作重点是无证移民，他们在儿童时期来到美国，并在美国度过了大部分的成长岁月。这些1.5代无证移民的经历与那些成年移民的经历大不相同。我们感兴趣的是更好地理解包容和排斥的混乱和冲突的经历对他们的心理和情感健康的影响，以及可能形成韧性的保护因素。虽然以前的学术研究已经对无证青年和年轻人的压力经历提出了一些重要的启示，但据我们所知，还没有工作明确地将其与心理和情感健康联系起来。文章最后对今后的研究提出了一些建议。
This article examines the consequences of undocumented immigration status for those who grow up in the United States. The aim is to examine the relationship between undocumented immigrant status and mental and emotional health. Our efforts focus on undocumented immigrants who arrive as children and spend most of their formative years in the United States. The experiences of these undocumented members of the 1.5 generation are quite different from those who migrate as adults. We are interested in better understanding the effects confusing and conflicting experiences of inclusion and exclusion have on their mental and emotional health as well as the protective factors that may shape resilience. While previous scholarship has drawn some important implications to experiences of stress among undocumented youth and young adults, to our knowledge, no work has been done to explicitly draw the link to mental and emotional health. The article concludes with some suggestions for future research on the topic.