Investigating Latinx Caregiver Preparation for Immigration Socialization in Mixed-Status Families

调查拉丁裔护理人员为混合身份家庭移民社会化所做的准备

• 批准号: 2204181
• 负责人: Sarah Rendon Garcia
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Rendon Garcia, Sarah A
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204181&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Latinx; Caregiver; Preparation; Immigration

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Carola Suarez-Orozco at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the immigration socialization practices of mixed-status immigrant families in the U.S. While 7 percent of U.S. children live with an unauthorized immigrant parent, researchers and practitioners alike have little insight into how these children and their families process the phenomenon of “illegality.” Existing research highlights the role of external messages in the family’s communication practices, like school and media messages. The literature on ethnic-racial socialization suggests caregiver approaches to communicating with their children about how to cope with such messages can play an inhibiting or protective role in youths’ development. Family separation and other immigration-related threats may complicate caregivers’ ability to provide a safe and developmentally appropriate avenue for meaning-making, which can affect children’s learning in school via a low sense of belonging, self-concept, or safety, however. The focus of the proposed study is to unpack family-level socialization processes, referred to as immigration socialization, to better understand the familial mechanisms involved in the association between immigration status and child development. Ultimately, providing caregiver support related to discussing topics of immigration and legal status in a developmentally appropriate way is needed. Family-level socialization processes about race and ethnicity matter for immigrant and non-immigrant children alike because a strong sense of belonging in society, communities, school, and the home predicts success in academic achievement and health outcomes. For parents, navigating immigration policy may be cognitively challenging and further complicated by the responsibility to protect and educate their children. To understand the ways current U.S. sociopolitical forces related to immigration policy affect the mechanism of self-concept as an outcome in children and adults, basic research is needed to understand how immigration-related rhetoric shapes children’s learning through caregiver/parental processes as well as how to intervene to support these children.The goal of this project is to begin establishing this foundational knowledge around immigration socialization related to the legal concept of undocumented status. This research study project consists of a two-phase mixed-methods approach from the lens of caregivers/parents in mixed-status immigrant families and focuses on these adults’ process of immigration socialization preparation. Phase 1 will consist of semi-structured interviews with caregivers in Latinx mixed-status families. Those qualitative findings will consequently be used to adapt an existing knowledge-building and interactive ERS workshop series using stepwise learning, attention to affective concerns of caregivers, and providing vicarious social models with verbal encouragement In Phase 2, the adapted content will be implemented, and a set of measures will be gathered to capture caregiver/parent skills, motivation, confidence, and immigration-threat to test the efficacy of structured preparation for the delivery of an intervention providing immigration socialization messages for Latinx mixed-status immigrant families. Findings will advance scientific knowledge on immigration-specific family socialization and study the potential moderating role of caregiver-child immigration socialization preparation on parental and caregiver outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在哈佛教育研究生院卡罗拉·苏亚雷斯-奥罗斯科（Carola Suarez-Orozco）博士的赞助下，该博士后奖学金支持一位早期职业科学家调查美国混合身份移民家庭的移民社会化实践。虽然7%的美国儿童与未经授权的移民父母住在一起，研究人员和实践者都不了解这些儿童及其家庭如何处理“非法”现象。现有的研究强调了外部信息在家庭沟通实践中的作用，如学校和媒体信息。关于族裔-种族社会化的文献表明，照顾者与子女沟通如何科普这些信息的方法，可能对青年的发展起到抑制或保护作用。家庭分离和其他与移民有关的威胁可能会使照顾者提供安全和适合发展的意义创造途径的能力复杂化，这可能会通过归属感、自我概念或安全感降低而影响儿童在学校的学习。拟议的研究的重点是解开家庭层面的社会化过程，被称为移民社会化，以更好地了解移民身份和儿童发展之间的关联所涉及的家庭机制。最后，需要提供照顾者支持，以发展适当的方式讨论移民和法律的地位问题。关于种族和族裔的家庭社会化过程对移民和非移民儿童都很重要，因为对社会、社区、学校和家庭的强烈归属感预示着学业成绩和健康成果的成功。对于父母来说，移民政策的导航可能具有认知挑战性，并且由于保护和教育子女的责任而进一步复杂化。为了了解当前美国与移民政策相关的社会政治力量如何影响儿童和成人的自我概念机制，需要进行基础研究，以了解与移民有关的修辞如何通过照顾者/这个项目的目标是开始建立关于移民社会化的基础知识与无证身份的法律的概念有关。本研究项目包括两个阶段的混合方法的方法，从照顾者/父母在混合身份的移民家庭的透镜，并侧重于这些成年人的移民社会化准备过程。第一阶段将包括半结构化的采访与照顾者在拉丁混合状态的家庭。因此，这些定性研究结果将用于调整现有的知识建设和互动ERS研讨会系列，使用逐步学习，关注照顾者的情感问题，并提供口头鼓励的替代性社会模型。在第2阶段，将实施调整后的内容，并收集一系列措施，以捕捉照顾者/父母的技能，动机，信心，和移民的威胁，以测试结构化的准备，为拉丁裔混合身份的移民家庭提供移民社会化信息的干预交付的功效。调查结果将推进移民特定的家庭社会化的科学知识和研究的父母和照顾者outcomes.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命的潜在调节作用-儿童移民社会化准备，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。