Stress Among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers in Rural Southeast North Carolina

Kim‐Godwin, Yeoun Soo; Bechtel, Gregory A.

doi:10.1111/j.1748-0361.2004.tb00039.x

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“…31,37 Our data suggest that the deportation experience creates an affective reaction that may increase the likelihood that women will engage in high-risk behaviors (e.g., drug use, unprotected sex), as documented elsewhere. [38][39][40][41] Studies with refugees have identified a relationship between depressive symptomatology and cognitive impairment that makes the acculturation process difficult. [42][43][44][45][46][47][48] High-risk behaviors have also been associated with the dissolution of family support networks, homelessness, long-term unemployment and poverty.…”

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Acculturative trajectories descriptions and implications for health among 12 Mexican deported women who inject drugs

Rodriguez-Montejano¹,

Ojeda

Valles-Medina³

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Introduction. Between 1999-2007, the U.S. deported 4.8 million migrants to Mexico; of these, 1.1 million migrants were deported to the border city of Tijuana, Baja California. Deportees are often returned to unfamiliar communities where they may experience emotional and socioeconomic stressors that may raise their risk for engaging in unsafe behaviors. Objective. This exploratory study describes adaptation to the post-deportation environment among Mexican-born injection drug-using women. Method. In 2008, we conducted qualitative interviews in Tijuana with 12 women reporting U.S. deportation. Our analytic framework focused on acculturation stress, adaptation and social capital in relation to HIV risk, considering a gender perspective. Results. We found that the stress caused by the deportation experience and acclimating to the post-deportation community may have contributed to the women’s participation in high-risk HIV behaviors (e.g., unprotected sex, sex work). Female deportees reported limited access to post-deportation social capital resources (e.g., social support, healthy social networks). Social factors (e.g., discrimination, lack of a government identification) challenged women’s resettlement and likely contributed to economic and health vulnerabilities. Discussion and conclusion. These preliminary findings suggest that deportees may benefit from organized services at repatriation, including mental health screening. Macro-level interventions that address stigma and facilitate deportees’ economic integration may help stem engagement in risk behaviors.

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Acculturative trajectories descriptions and implications for health among 12 Mexican deported women who inject drugs

Rodriguez-Montejano¹,

Ojeda

Valles-Medina³

et al. 2015

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“…A recent study showed that job concerns were associated with Filipino immigrant workers' adverse health outcomes and that the association was the strongest for the newest immigrants (de Castro, Gee, & Takeuchi, 2008). Migrant farm workers reported concerns related to job insecurity, legal status, language barriers, poor housing conditions, discrimination, and absence from family or friends (Kim-Godwin & Bechtel, 2004;Magana & Hovey, 2003). Studies with Chinese immigrants suggested that, for economic survival, immigrants worked in positions requiring less skill and conveying lower socioeconomic status than positions they had had in their home countries.…”

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A Theoretical Model for Understanding Mental Health, Substance Use, and Work Performance among Asian Immigrants

Tsai

Salazar

2009

AAOHN Journal

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Mental illness and substance use disorders are prevalent among workers. Each year businesses lose billions of dollars to decreased work performance associated with these issues. This article discusses a theoretical model that depicts relationships between social discrimination, job concerns, and social support and workers' mental health problems and substance use and work performance. The focus is Asian immigrant workers, a population underrepresented in the literature. This model serves to assist occupational health nurses in the practice and research arenas better understand the complexities of mental health problems and substance use among Asian immigrant workers. Occupational health nurses are in a prime position to recognize, identify, and respond to at-risk workers. Examples of areas that might be considered by occupational health nurses when using this model are included.

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“…The literature shows that poverty, immigration status, birthplace, barriers to care (linguistic and structural), discrimination, access to services, lack of services, lack of insurance, work-related stress, stigma, acculturation, rural/urban residency, length of residency, and weakened social support are important risk factors in Hispanic mental health (see, e.g., Cabassa, Zayas, & Hansen, 2006; Escobar et al, 2000; Kim-Godwin & Bechtel, 2004; Lara, Gamboa, Kahramanian, Morales, & Bautista, 2005; Roberts, 1980; Rohrer, Borders, & Blanton, 2005; Vega, Alderete, Kolody, & Aguilar-Gaxiola, 1998; Vega, Kolody, Aguilar-Gaxiola, & Catalano, 1999; Vega, Kolody, Hough, & Figueroa, 1987; Vega & Lopez, 2001; World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Consortium, 2004). Of these mental health risk factors among Hispanics reported in the literature, birthplace, acculturation, and length of residency are within the scope of our survey and are examined more closely here.…”

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Prevalence of Mental Health Issues in the Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective

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The purpose of this paper is to (a) examine the results of a binational study of two colonias near El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, focusing on mental health and (b) analyze those results in relation to the existing literature on Hispanic mental health to determine how border regions compare with Hispanic enclaves in nonborder regions. We focus on gender, birthplace, length of residency, and level of acculturation correlated with self-reported diagnoses of depression in our analysis. Our survey instrument incorporates portions of the Behavioral Risk Factor and Surveillance Survey; the SF36, version 2; and the CAGE scale for alcohol use and abuse. We found that birthplace, acculturation, and length of residency at the border did not correlate in the same ways to mental health issues as in nonborder regions.

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Stress Among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers in Rural Southeast North Carolina

Abstract: Findings from the study suggest the availability of social support systems may provide significant insight into developing appropriate health services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.

Cited by 68 publications

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Acculturative trajectories descriptions and implications for health among 12 Mexican deported women who inject drugs

Acculturative trajectories descriptions and implications for health among 12 Mexican deported women who inject drugs

A Theoretical Model for Understanding Mental Health, Substance Use, and Work Performance among Asian Immigrants

Prevalence of Mental Health Issues in the Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective

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