Legal Status and the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adult Immigrants

该项目将调查无证年轻人的社会和情感福祉。超过210万无证年轻人从小就生活在美国。他们的地位与发展、经济和社会不平等有关，这些不平等影响了他们生活的各个方面，包括就业、流动和教育机会。这项研究将有助于理论创新，我们所知道的移民公司，最显着的是通过本体安全的概念，或年轻人的信心，在周围的社会和物质环境的可靠性，他们去他们的生活。该项目将扩大对提高年轻移民福祉的机制的理解，使科学界能够确定培养这一人群积极应对技能的方法，方案，团体和个人。在这方面，这项研究促进了生活在美国的边缘化亚群体的健康和福利。这项研究将提供一个知识基础，以指导今后在这一领域开展学术工作，并采取干预措施，解决无证青年人口的需求。此外，这项研究将直接促进历史上代表性不足的群体在研究中的参与和专业和学术发展，增加社会科学专业人员的多样性。该项目还将通过培训和吸收学生参与研究进程来加强研究生教育。学生将有机会学习该项目的方法论的方法和参与收集的数据的分析。这项研究提出，无证青年移民的社会和情感福祉是内在联系在一个人的行动，或本体安全的社会和物质环境的恒定性的信心，特别是当他们了解和充分掌握他们的法律的地位的影响。拟议的研究将扩大对这一人群的试点研究的初步结果，将他们的社会和情感健康模式与进入劳动力，高等教育和家庭形成的不同轨迹联系起来-所有这些都包括向成年的过渡。这项研究将收集120个深入的访谈和数据有关的参与者的社区和学校在四个不同类型的社区。数据分析将考虑他们移民的条件以及他们成长和目前居住在美国的社会经济和人口背景如何塑造他们的福祉和其他社会，教育和经济成果。该项目将提供关于个人，家庭和邻里相关因素的作用的新见解，这些因素加剧或减轻了这一人群的社会和情感幸福感。

This project will investigate the social and emotional well-being of undocumented young adults. More than 2.1 million undocumented young adults have been living in the United States since childhood. Their status is associated with developmental, economic, and social inequalities that shape all aspects of their lives, including employment, mobility, and educational opportunities. This study will contribute theoretical innovations to what we know about immigrant incorporation, most notably through the notion of ontological security, or young adults' confidence in the dependability of the surrounding social and material environments in which they go about their lives. The project will expand understandings of mechanisms that enhance well-being among young immigrants that will allow the scientific community to identify the approaches, programs, groups, and individuals that foster positive coping skills in this population. In this regard, this research advances the health and welfare of marginalized subgroups living in the United States. This study will provide a knowledge base to guide the development of future scholarly work in this field and interventions to address the needs of the undocumented youth population. Moreover, this research will directly enhance the participation and professional and academic development of historically underrepresented groups in research, adding to the diversity of social science professionals. This project will also enhance graduate education by training and incorporating students into the research process. Students will have opportunities to learn the project's methodological approaches and participate in the analysis of collected data.This study proposes that the social and emotional well-being of undocumented young adult immigrants is intrinsically linked to the confidence in the constancy of one's social and material environments of action, or ontological security, especially as they learn about and fully grasp the implications of their legal status. The proposed research will expand on preliminary findings from pilot studies on this population to relate patterns in their social and emotional well-being to different trajectories into the workforce, higher education, and family formation--all of which comprise the transition to adulthood. The study will collect 120 in-depth interviews and data related to participants' neighborhoods and schools in four distinct types of communities. Data analysis will consider how the conditions under which they migrated and the socio-economic and demographic contexts in which they grew up and they currently live in the U.S. shape their well-being and other social, educational, and economical outcomes. The project will provide new insights on the roles of individual, family, and neighborhood-related factors that exacerbate or mitigate social and emotional well-being among this population.