Community-Based Asian American and Pacific Islander Organizations and Immigrant Integration

Leon, Erwin de

doi:10.17953/appc.10.1.7w1u247t5wj0164h

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“…Service providers will need to advance their understanding of the cultural context and life experiences of immigrant families, in particular to leverage CBOs that have become important cultural brokers for immigrant families as effective intermediaries to connect families to the complex system of service delivery in the US. [ 29 ]…”

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Disparities in Health Care Quality Indicators among US Children with Special Health Care Needs According to Household Language Use

Lin

Strickland

2015

Int. J. MCH AIDS

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Background:Lower health care utilization and less favorable health outcomes have been demonstrated in children from Non-English Primary Language households (NEPL) in previous studies. This study examines prevalence of health care quality indicators among US children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and their association with household language use.Methods:We used data from the 2009-2010 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, restricted to an analytic sample of 40,242 children. Logistic regression models were used to examine the effects of primary household language on the attainment of the 6 health care quality indicators for CSHCN.Results:Compared to CSHCN from English primary language households (EPL), CSHCN from NEPL households had 31% higher odds of not feeling like partners in health care decision-making. They had 67% higher odds of lacking care through a medical home and 42% higher odds of reporting inadequate health insurance. NEPL children had 32% higher odds of not receiving early and continuous screening for special health care needs. NEPL youths had 69% higher odds of not receiving services for transition to adulthood. Minority race/ethnicity, lower income and families other than two biological parents all conferred additional risks to not attaining quality indicators. Publicly insured or uninsured CSHCN were also at higher risk.Conclusions and Global Health Implications:Our study provides compelling evidence that significant disparities exist for CSHCN by primary household language status across all health care quality indicators. Establishment of effective surveillance systems and targeting of outreach programs in both developed and developing countries may lead to improved understanding of health care needs and quality of services and reduction of health disparities for this underserved population.

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Disparities in Health Care Quality Indicators among US Children with Special Health Care Needs According to Household Language Use

Lin

Strickland

2015

Int. J. MCH AIDS

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“…Absent local sources of support, immigrants may instead rely on nearby immigrant destinations if they prefer receiving assistance from longstanding, trusted community organizations located in large, urban centers (de Graauw, Gleeson, & Bloemraad 2013;De Leon et al, 2009).…”

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Making noncitizens' rights real: Evidence from immigration scam complaints

Pedroza

2022

Law & Policy

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Noncitizens seeking to make sense of US immigration systems encounter a labyrinth of information and deception. This paper is the first national study of scams targeting noncitizens seeking immigration legal services. I construct a county-year database (N = 3,135 over a fouryear time period, 2011-2014) across secondary data sources to analyze the correlates of immigration scam complaints submitted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). I find that welcoming counties have more immigration scam complaints, and counties with exclusionary contexts tend to have fewer complaints. The results do not suggest that scams are more prevalent in welcoming contexts, because the actual number of scams is unknown. Instead, we can conclude that noncitizens tend to come forward to report immigration scams in welcoming contexts of reception, even after accounting for exclusionary policies. A robust safety net proved the most reliable predictor of immigration scams reported to the FTC. The concentration of immigration attorneys, legal aid services, and language access were also positively associated with the number of FTC scam reports. Taken together, these results suggest that immigrantserving capacity and access to key services support noncitizens who report immigration scams, while hostility toward immigrants may deter them from exercising those same rights.

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“…At the local level, Gleeson and Bloemraad (2012) documented the underrepresentation of immigrants in the population of nonprofits in California. Other research found that some immigrant communities, including Asian Americans, have many fewer nonprofits pursuing political advocacy that others, specifically compared to Hispanic Americans, who have a richer array of nonprofits with political aims (De Leon, Maronick, De Vita, & Boris, 2009). The authors attribute this to longer traditions of political activism in the Hispanic American community that encourage advocacy from their nonprofits.…”

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The Institutional Digital Divide

Brown

2014

Social Science Computer Review

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Concerns about a digital divide in U.S. politics that separates those who have and do not have access to technology have persisted for decades. Those concerns are prominent for immigrants and ethnoracial minorities who have tended to participate in politics, in general, and digital politics, in particular, at lower levels than others. Less attention has focused on the role representative nonprofits play in using technology to share political information and whether there is an institutional dimension to the digital divide. This article examines the adoption of social media by immigrantserving nonprofits in the context of mobilization around elections. The findings suggest that responding organizations have adopted social media slowly and that key internal and external factors seem to relate to social media adoption. Hispanic American organizations were the fastest to adopt social media and have continued to be a technology leader. However, certain immigrant communities, especially the Asian American community, have been particularly slow to adopt social media suggesting that a digital divide exists within the population of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations. These findings can be used by the leaders and managers of nonprofits to inform future decisions about the integration of technology into their operations.

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Community-Based Asian American and Pacific Islander Organizations and Immigrant Integration

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Disparities in Health Care Quality Indicators among US Children with Special Health Care Needs According to Household Language Use

Disparities in Health Care Quality Indicators among US Children with Special Health Care Needs According to Household Language Use

Making noncitizens' rights real: Evidence from immigration scam complaints

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