Translating psychological research on immigrants and refugees.

Okazaki, Sumie; Guler, Jessy; Haarlammert, Miryam; Liu, Sabrina R.

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“…Since we collected and analyzed this data, there have been additional reports of thousands of unaccompanied children migrating across national borders in and around Europe and reports of poor treatment of immigrant children separated from their parents at the southern U.S border. As immigration policies are debated, refined, and hopefully improved, more research translating basic psychological research on immigrants and refugees could be incorporated (Okazaki, Guler, Haarlammert, & Liu, 2019; Silka, 2018). More qualitative methods to understand immigrants and their plight are also needed (cf.…”

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Attitudes Toward Separating Immigrant Families at the United States–Mexico Border

Rowatt

Al‐Kire

Dunn

et al. 2020

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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Mexico border and to identify psychological variables that account for variability in attitudes toward immigrant family separation. In Study 1, a sample designed to be representative of Americans in the United States responded to a question about the zero-tolerance policy that resulted in immigrant family separation. In Study 2, participants in two convenience samples completed online surveys with measures of perceived threat posed by immigrants, dehumanization, social dominance, political ideology, religiosity, and immigrant family separation. Across samples, the majority of respondents opposed separating immigrant families. Conservative political ideology was a consistent correlate of support for immigrant family separation. Dehumanization of immigrants and social dominance orientation also accounted for unique variability in support for immigrant family separation. Given the potentially harmful effects of extended parent-child separation caused by the zero-tolerance policy, it is important to understand the roles of dehumanization, social dominance, and ideology in attitudes toward immigration policies. Predictors of support for restrictive policies could be targets of individual or community-level interventions designed to reduce immigrant prejudice. Directions for future research and implications for U.S. communities and policies affecting immigrants are discussed.

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Attitudes Toward Separating Immigrant Families at the United States–Mexico Border

Rowatt

Al‐Kire

Dunn

et al. 2020

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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“…Psychological theorizing and empirical research on immigration have grown in the 21st century and are now fast expanding as a specialized field (Birman & Bray, 2017;Cobb et al, 2019;Dovidio & Esses, 2001;Hernandez, 2009;Jasso, 2014;Mahalingam, 2006;Okazaki et al, 2019). In this research, attention has been given to a range of topics including the mental health of immigrants (Torres et al, 2018), the education of immigrant children (Frisby & Jimerson, 2016), immigrants and social technology (Bacigalupe & Cámara, 2012), and identity development among immigrants (Verkuyten et al, 2019).…”

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Contemporary immigration: Psychological perspectives on challenges and solutions.

Moghaddam¹,

Hendricks²

2022

Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions.

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Hard-working, devoted to the family, essential for our country!" In the early decades of the 21st century, sharply divided visions have emerged of immigrants and their role in society, not just in the United States but also in the European Union (EU) and other parts of the world. On the one hand, there is a vision of immigrants as representing threats: a threat to our safety, a threat to our jobs, a threat to our standard of living, a threat to our communities and culture, a threat to our language. Immigrants seen as threats lead people to launch attacks, such as "Go back to where you came from!" This is a subtractive vision, in the sense that immigrants are seen to take away from, to harm, the assets and strengths of our society. But there is an alternative, additive vision, that presents immigrants as bringing benefits: they add new workers and consumers to

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“…Psychological scholarship on refugees and immigrants continues to be necessary given the growth of the migrant population and the increase in anti-immigrant nationalism worldwide (Okazaki et al, 2019). Despite calls to understand the long-term resilience required to adapt to large-scale disasters or traumas, limited research addresses migrants’ resilience.…”

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Socioecological Perspectives of Resilience Among Arab and Middle Eastern Migrants

Alshabani

Speight

Soto

et al. 2023

The Counseling Psychologist

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This phenomenological study explored the lived experience of resilience among Arab and Middle Eastern migrants living in the United States through a socioecological framework. Nineteen first- and second-generation Arab and Middle Eastern adults were interviewed from 10 families. The study explored two research questions (a) how participants described their experience of resilience and (b) how participants experienced resilience in the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Eleven subthemes emerged and included a variety of themes that described the interaction between migrants and their environment at each level of the socioecological system. Findings add to the literature by revealing the dynamic nature of resilience as well as providing a socioecological perspective of resilience, contextualizing our understanding of resilience for this community, and illuminating how socioecological factors can hinder or foster resilience.

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Translating psychological research on immigrants and refugees.

Cited by 5 publications

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Attitudes Toward Separating Immigrant Families at the United States–Mexico Border

Attitudes Toward Separating Immigrant Families at the United States–Mexico Border

Contemporary immigration: Psychological perspectives on challenges and solutions.

Socioecological Perspectives of Resilience Among Arab and Middle Eastern Migrants

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