Immigrants Learn English: Immigrant's Language Acquisition Rates by Country of Origin and Demographics since 1900

Landgrave, Michelangelo

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“…Within this political climate, we sought to build upon previous efforts (Nowrasteh, 2018b; Landgrave & Nowrasteh, 2018) by examining whether various immigrant groups were more likely to be incarcerated in Texas for homicides committed between 2013 and 2015, relative to U.S. citizens. This study is timely in light of Trump’s repeated characterization of undocumented immigrants as purveyors of “.…”

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“…4 Beyond this, the present study responds to Ousey and Kubrin’s (2018) call to disaggregate types of offending (including homicide types) by race/ethnicity when examining the relationship between immigration and homicide. Finally, this study builds upon previous efforts (see Hagan & Palloni, 1999; Nowrasteh, 2018b; Landgrave & Nowrasteh, 2018) by using more precise estimates of the authorized and unauthorized immigration status of individuals incarcerated in Texas for homicide.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…A second study used data from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to demonstrate that undocumented and documented immigrants were less likely to be arrested and convicted for a variety of crimes compared to U.S.-born individuals (Nowrasteh, 2018b). Landgrave and Nowrasteh (2018) analyzed American Community Survey data to examine national incarceration rates for documented and undocumented immigrants between the ages of 18 and 54 in 2016. Using statistical methods to estimate the number of documented and undocumented immigrants, they found that both categories of immigrants had significantly lower incarceration rates relative to U.S.-born individuals.…”

Section: Research On Immigration and Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

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Disentangling Differences in Homicide Incarceration Rates by Immigration Status: A Comparison in Texas

Orrick

Updegrove

Kovandzic

2020

Crime & Delinquency

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Research addressing the purported relationship between immigration and crime remains popular, but some gaps remain under-explored. One important gap involves disentangling differences in crime and punishment by immigrant status, as measured across different definitions of immigration status and in relation to U.S. natives, at the individual level. Using data from Texas, results show that native-born U.S. citizens are incarcerated for homicide at higher rates than almost all immigrant groups. While the incarceration rate for undocumented immigrants was 24% greater than the rate for all foreign-citizens, this rate was significantly less than that for U.S. citizens. Among the immigrant status classifications available in this study, all were associated with lower incarceration rates for homicide than that of U.S. citizens.

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Section: Research On Immigration and Crimementioning

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Disentangling Differences in Homicide Incarceration Rates by Immigration Status: A Comparison in Texas

Orrick

Updegrove

Kovandzic

2020

Crime & Delinquency

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“…Analyzing nationally representative data, Vaughn, Salas-Wright, DeLisi, and Maynard (2014) found that native-born individuals were four times more likely to report violent behaviors compared with African and Asian immigrants and three times more likely to report violent behavior compared with Latin American immigrants. Furthermore, when incarceration rates from 2014 were examined, both legal and undocumented immigrants were significantly less likely to be incarcerated than were native-born individuals (Landgrave & Nowrasteh, 2017). Together, these studies provide strong evidence that immigrants are less prone to crime than native-born individuals, and this pattern is observed for both legal and undocumented immigrants.…”

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Toward a Positive Psychology of Immigrants

Cobb

Branscombe

Meca

et al. 2019

Perspect Psychol Sci

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The vast majority of immigration-focused research in psychology is rooted in deficit models that center on negative health outcomes (e.g., depression, acculturative stress, anxiety, substance use), resulting in a widely held assumption that immigrants are at greater risk for pathology and poor well-being compared with native-born individuals. Moreover, current political discourse often portrays immigrants as more prone to crime compared with native-born individuals. From a positive-psychology perspective, we argue that, despite numerous migration-related challenges, many immigrant populations report positive patterns of psychological health. We also provide evidence that immigrants are, in fact, less prone to crime than their native-born counterparts. We conclude by discussing several contributing factors that account for positive immigrant well-being across the range of destination countries. Ultimately, the field should address questions regarding (a) immigrants’ strategies for coping with the challenges involved in adapting to new homelands and (b) asset-based factors that help immigrants to thrive during difficult life challenges.

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“…Additionally, LEP is an unchosen disadvantage. Immigrants to the United States are increasingly learning English, 20 but individuals' ability to do so varies, is complicated by numerous other factors, 21 and has nothing to do with their need for or desert of health services. Justice requires that patients with LEP be able to access and receive the same quality of care as Englishproficient patients.…”

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How Should Clinicians Respond to Language Barriers That Exacerbate Health Inequity?

Espinoza

Derrington

2021

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Patients and families with limited English proficiency (LEP) face barriers to health care service access, experience lower quality care, and suffer worse health outcomes. LEP is an independent driver of health disparities and exacerbates other social determinants of health. Disparities due to language are particularly unjust because LEP is morally irrelevant and a source of unfair, unnecessary disadvantage. Clinicians and health care organizations have duties to intervene, which this article describes. To claim one AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM for the CME activity associated with this article, you must do the following: (1) read this article in its entirety, (2) answer at least 80 percent of the quiz questions correctly, and (3) complete an evaluation. The quiz, evaluation, and form for claiming AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM are available through the AMA Ed Hub TM. Case Dr J is a second-year emergency department (ED) resident physician who, during an unusually busy shift, sees MM, a 13-year-old girl, accompanied by her father; this is their third visit to the ED this week. MM, rubbing her belly, appears somewhat uncomfortable but in no apparent distress. After 15 minutes of fumbling with an interpreter via phone, Dr J realizes that MM and her father speak a language or dialect not available via the interpreter phone service. The 3 navigate a broken English dialogue that seems to reveal that, for 5 days, MM has had decreased appetite and abdominal pain, which was most severe yesterday and since then has improved. Dr J's physical examination of MM reveals mild, diffuse, nonspecific abdominal tenderness that seems most consistent with acute gastroenteritis. Dr J leaves MM's room and confers with Dr C about a treatment plan. Dr J returns to MM, suggesting she take acetaminophen for pain, and arranges for MM's discharge from the ED before moving on to another patient. Two days later, MM returns to the ED with an abdominal abscess from a ruptured appendix, in septic shock, and requiring urgent surgical intervention. Dr J wonders what she might have done differently.

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Immigrants Learn English: Immigrant's Language Acquisition Rates by Country of Origin and Demographics since 1900

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Disentangling Differences in Homicide Incarceration Rates by Immigration Status: A Comparison in Texas

Disentangling Differences in Homicide Incarceration Rates by Immigration Status: A Comparison in Texas

Toward a Positive Psychology of Immigrants

How Should Clinicians Respond to Language Barriers That Exacerbate Health Inequity?

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