From undocumented to lawfully present: Do changes to legal status impact psychological wellbeing among latino immigrant young adults?
From undocumented to lawfully present: Do changes to legal status impact psychological wellbeing among latino immigrant young adults?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.009
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发表时间：
2018-02-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Pirtle, Whitney Laster
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作者：
Patler, Caitlin;Pirtle, Whitney Laster
排他性移民政策是结构性种族主义的一种形式，导致大量无证人口在很大程度上无法获得美国的资源。现有研究表明，无证移民身份会对流动性产生不利影响，但很少有研究测试合法身份对心理健康的影响。最重要的是，我们对法律地位的变化如何影响福祉知之甚少。 2012 年宣布的儿童入境暂缓遣返 (DACA) 计划允许符合条件的无证青少年申请临时合法身份。我们利用 2014 年和 2015 年在加州收集的 487 名拉丁裔年轻移民的横断面调查数据，分析了与移民心理健康相关的三种专门结果的预测因素——从无证身份转变为合法身份之前和之后的困扰、负面情绪和驱逐担忧。结果表明，当所有受访者都没有记录时，过去心理健康状况的回顾性报告主要是通过社会经济地位来预测的。然而，当前心理健康状况的报告是通过 DACA 状态来预测的。我们的研究结果首次证明了年轻移民摆脱无证身份所带来的积极情感影响。 (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. 保留所有权利。
Exclusionary immigration policies, as a form of structural racism, have led to a sizeable undocumented population that is largely barred from access to resources in the United States. Existing research suggests that undocumented immigration status detrimentally impacts mobility, yet few studies have tested the impacts of legal status on psychological wellbeing. Most importantly, we know little about how changes to legal status impact wellbeing. Announced in 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allows eligible undocumented youth to apply for temporary lawful status. Drawing on cross-sectional survey data from 487 Latino immigrant young adults in California collected in 2014 and 2015, we analyze the predictors of three specialized outcomes related to immigrants' psychological wellbeing-distress, negative emotions, and deportation worry before and after a transition from un-documented to lawfully present status. Results show that retrospective reports of past psychological wellness, when all respondents were undocumented, are predicted primarily by socioeconomic status. However, reports of current psychological wellness are predicted by DACA status. Our results demonstrate, for the first time, the positive emotional consequences of transitioning out of undocumented status for immigrant young adults. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.