Undocumented Latina immigrants in Orange County, California: A comparative analysis
Undocumented Latina immigrants in Orange County, California: A comparative analysis
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DOI：
10.2307/2547259
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发表时间：
1997-03-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Valdez, RB
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作者：
Chavez, LR;Hubbell, FA;Valdez, RB
本文研究了从拉丁裔（包括 160 名无证移民）和奥兰治县的非西班牙裔白人女性中随机收集的独特数据集；加利福尼亚州，包括无证和有证拉丁裔移民、拉丁裔公民和非西班牙裔白人女性。我们的调查表明，无证拉丁裔比有证拉丁裔更年轻，而移民拉丁裔通常比美国公民拉丁裔和安格女性年轻。无证和有证拉丁裔从事卑微服务行业的工作，通常是家政服务。大多数人没有医疗保险等与工作相关的福利。尽管收入低且可能有 18 岁以下的子女与他们同住，但他们对公共援助的使用率却很低。无证和有证拉丁裔移民居住的家庭通常有大家庭成员；与研究中的其他女性相比，她们更有可能缺乏常规的医疗保健来源，更有可能利用诊所、公共卫生中心和医院急诊室而不是私人医生或 HMO，并且没有充分利用预防性癌症筛查服务。尽管拥有移民身份，无证拉丁裔移民常常将自己视为美国社区的一部分，这极大地影响了他们留在美国的意图。与最近有关移民的公共政策辩论的大部分相反，我们没有发现社会服务影响拉丁裔移民留在美国的意图。
This article examines a unique data set randomly collected from Latinas (including 160 undocumented immigrants) and non-Hispanic white women in Orange Count); California, including undocumented and documented Latina immigrants, Latina citizens, and non-Hispanic white women. Our survey suggests that undocumented Latinas are younger than documented Latinas, and immigrant Latinas are generally younger than U.S.-citizen Latinas and Angle women. Undocumented and documented Latinas work in menial service sector jobs, often in domestic services. Most do not have job-related benefits such as medical insurance. Despite low incomes and likelihood of having children under age 18 living with them, their use of public assistance was low. Undocumented and documented Latina immigrants lived in households that often contained extended family members; they were more likely than other women in the study to lack a regular source of health care, to utilize health clinics, public health centers, and hospital emergency rooms rather than private physicians or HMOs, and to underutilize preventative cancer screening services. Despite their immigration status, undocumented Latina immigrants often viewed themselves as part of a community in the United States, which significantly influenced their intentions to stay in the United States. Contrary to much of the recent public policy debate over immigration, we did not find that social services influenced Latina immigrants' intentions to stay in the United States.