Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health within Mixed-Status Families

Logan, Ryan I.; Melo, Milena Andrea; Castañeda, Heide

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“…Potentially detrimental health effects of not having a license, or vice-versa, the salutary effects of having a license, could extend to Latino U.S. citizens and legal residents living with mixed-status families or communities [ 12 ]. The stress and fear associated with family members’ legal status has been shown to provoke depression and anxiety among Latino U.S. citizens and has been associated with more cardiovascular risk factors [ 24 , 25 ]. As has been pointed out previously, racial profiling, e.g., racial discrimination during traffic stops including searches prompted by the driver’s race, is a public health and health equity issue and impacts all Latinos, irrespective of their legal status [ 14 , 15 ].…”

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“…Among Latino adults living in the intervention states, the average number of perceived poor physical health days per month was 4.30 (standard deviation (SD) = 0.09) during the pre-intervention period (January 2011 -June 2013), decreasing to 3.80 (SD = 0.06) in the post-intervention period (July 2015 -December 2019). The average 25) 3265 ( 25) 2261 ( 25) 5648 (24) 35 to 44 4114 ( 22) 2944 ( 22) 7787 ( 21) 3488 ( 22) 2433 ( 21) 5807 (22) 45 to 54 3371 ( 16) 2593 ( 17) 6850 ( 17) 3378 ( 16) 2392 ( 16) 5084 (15) 55 to 64 2588 (11) 1827 ( 11) 5244 ( 12) 2477 ( 11) 1901 ( 12) 4173 (12) 65 or older 2418 (7) 1671 ( 8) 4225 ( 9) 2470 ( 8) 1898 ( 9) 3839 ( 10)…”

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Perceived general, mental, and physical health of Latinos in the United States following adoption of immigrant-inclusive state-level driver’s license policies: a time-series analysis

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Background In the United States (U.S.), several states have laws that allow individuals to obtain driver’s licenses regardless of their immigration status. Possession of a driver’s license can improve an individual’s access to social programs, healthcare services, and employment opportunities, which could lead to improvements in perceived mental and physical health among Latinos living in the U.S. Methods Using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data (2011–2019) for Latinos living in the U.S. overall (immigration status was not available), we compared the average number of self-reported perceived poor mental and physical health days/month, and general health status (single-item measures) before (January 2011-June 2013) and after implementation (July 2015-December 2019) of immigrant-inclusive license policies using interrupted time-series analyses and segmented linear regression, and a control group of states in which such policies were not implemented. We also compared the average number of adults reporting any perceived poor mental or physical health days (≥ 1 day/month) using a similar approach. Results One hundred twenty-three thousand eight hundred seven Latino adults were included; 66,805 lived in states that adopted immigrant-inclusive license policies. After implementation, average number of perceived poor physical health days significantly decreased from 4.30 to 3.80 days/month (immediate change = -0.64, 95% CI = -1.10 to -0.19). The proportion reporting ≥ 1 perceived poor physical and mental health day significantly decreased from 41 to 34% (OR = 0.89, 95% CI = 0.80–1.00) and from 40 to 33% (OR = 0.84, 95% CI = 0.74–0.94), respectively. Conclusions Among all Latinos living in the U.S., immigrant-inclusive license policies were associated with fewer perceived poor physical health days per month and fewer adults experiencing poor physical and mental health. Because anti-immigrant policies can harm Latino communities regardless of immigration status and further widen health inequities, implementing state policies that do not restrict access to driver licenses based on immigrant status documentation could help address upstream drivers of such inequities.

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Perceived general, mental, and physical health of Latinos in the United States following adoption of immigrant-inclusive state-level driver’s license policies: a time-series analysis

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“…Life in the borderlands is for many associated with sustained stress, and all the health consequences that follow from it. For families whose members have mixed immigration status, that vulnerability carries over into familial mental and emotional health challenges (Logan, Melo, and Castañeda 2021), while experiences of pregnancy-related stress increase according to how long mothers have lived in the United States (Fleuriet and Sunil 2017). There are well-established links between stress and low birth rates, which disproportionately affect Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women (Ibid).…”

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Borders and Borderlands: (Re)negotiating biomedicine, belonging, and nation

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This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzaldúa's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hybridising potential of the US-Mexico borderlands and the various forms of living that emerged within. Though her writing was always critically and politically engaged, resistance, for Anzaldúa, was not enough, too mired in an opposition defined by the oppressor. 'Th[at] counterstance, ' she wrote, is 'a step towards liberation from cultural domination. But it is not a way of life' (Anzaldúa 2007, 78). Instead, she turned attention to the unpredictable, emergent possibilities that take shape in the borderlands, born out of an embrace of ambiguity. For Anzaldúa, it is precisely the state of being caught between worlds that creates the conditions of possibility for alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and existing. Although hers was a heavily psychologised rendering, subsequent developments by feminist scholars have further filled in the social and political potential of the borderlands concept (Icaza 2020; Lugones 1992). Feminist philosopher Maria Lugones offers a particularly rich extension of Anzaldúa's writing, highlighting how acts of resistance from the borderlands, if seen as processual, become parts of a greater collective movement for change. It is thus both Alzaldua's theory of the borderlands, and the conversations it has provoked, that provides the conceptual orientation for this special issue of Sites.When the four of us gathered in May of 2019 to coordinate that year's Somaa (Society of Medical Anthropology of Aotearoa) symposium, we sought a theme that could explore the porosity of bodies -biological, institutional, geographic, and otherwise -and engage with their unsettled, transitional nature. Anzaldúa's

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“…When it comes to how these stressors impact utilization and perceptions of interpersonal support, perhaps the effects of familial vulnerability (Logan et al, 2021) may provide some insight. In prior research, it has been suggested that these immigration-related family stressors may impact the physical and/or emotional availability of caregivers with their children (Suárez-Orozco & Suárez-Orozco, 2009).…”

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“…In terms of why these immigration-related family stressors can affect individual mental health outcomes, Logan et al (2021) discusses the spillover effect that undocumented family members' experiences of marginalization can have on documented individuals, creating a familial vulnerability. Specifically, fears of familial deportation, ethnic-racial discrimination, academic concerns (in the form of limited educational opportunities), and financial concerns (in the form of limited career opportunities, and/or needing to provide for the family due to other family member's undocumented status) places continued distress on the family, which can negatively affect family processes and childhood socioemotional development.…”

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Immigration Family Stress, Support-Seeking and Depression Among Mixed Legal Status Families

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Research has shown that social support-seeking behaviors can help buffer against the negative effects of immigration-related stressors. However, this coping strategy is not always efficacious as evidenced by the recurring rates of depression found within various immigrationaffected populations. The current study tested the hypothesis that greater immigration-related family stress is associated with lower levels of support seeking coping and that, together, these two risk factors interact to predict greater depressive symptomatology among young adults who have at least one undocumented family member. Participants included young adults (N=283) attending a public university who reported having documented legal status and at least one family member with undocumented legal status. Participants completed several validated measures of support-seeking coping behaviors and depressive symptomatology and a novel instrument to assess exposure to immigration-related family stress. There was a small positive correlation between immigration-related family stressors and depression symptoms (r = .124, p < .05) and a slight negative association between higher utilization of social support systems and lower depression symptoms (r = -.189, p < .01). The interactions hypothesized were nonsignificant. However, there was a robust negative association between perceived interpersonal support and depressive symptomatology, statistically adjusting for support-seeking coping and immigration-related family stress (B = -.20, p < .01). Findings suggest that although young adults from mixed legal status families are vulnerable to the effects of immigration-related family stressors, perceiving social support systems as being reliable may reduce negative mental health outcomes for this immigration-affected population. vi Preface and/or AcknowledgementsIn writing this Thesis Dissertation, I would like to formally thank Dr. Melissa Hagan for all her help and cooperation, as well as Dr. Juliana Karras for providing me with additional feedback. It was through their dedicated support that helped make this project possible.

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Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health within Mixed-Status Families

Cited by 20 publications

References 33 publications

Perceived general, mental, and physical health of Latinos in the United States following adoption of immigrant-inclusive state-level driver’s license policies: a time-series analysis

Perceived general, mental, and physical health of Latinos in the United States following adoption of immigrant-inclusive state-level driver’s license policies: a time-series analysis

Borders and Borderlands: (Re)negotiating biomedicine, belonging, and nation

Immigration Family Stress, Support-Seeking and Depression Among Mixed Legal Status Families

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