Use of Computer Technology to Enhance Immigrant Families' Adaptation

Tsai, Jenny Hsin-Chun

doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.2006.00082.x

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“…Like almost everyone else today, undocumented immigrants are users of information and communication technology (ICT). While ICTs have been found to support immigrants' integration in new contexts [27,28,31,94], technology can also enable discrimination, harassment, and government surveillance, the latter potentially leading to devastating consequences such as detention, deportation, and family disruption. For the estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States [71], these risks have intensified recently due to increased immigration enforcement and anti-immigrant sentiment [52,53,57].…”

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McDonald

Simioni

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Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Undocumented immigrants in the United States face risks of discrimination, surveillance, and deportation. We investigate their technology use, risk perceptions, and protective strategies relating to their vulnerability. Through semi-structured interviews with Latinx undocumented immigrants, we find that while participants act to address offline threats, this vigilance does not translate to their online activities. Their technology use is shaped by needs and benefits rather than risk perceptions. While our participants are concerned about identity theft and privacy generally, and some raise concerns about online harassment, their understanding of government surveillance risks is vague and met with resignation. We identify tensions among self-expression, group privacy, and self-censorship related to their immigration status, as well as strong trust in service providers. Our findings have implications for digital literacy education, privacy and security interfaces, and technology design in general. Even minor design decisions can substantially affect exposure risks and well-being for such vulnerable communities.

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“…A challenge faced by many immigrants as well as the host country is integration of the immigrant population into the new community (Scott & Scott, 2013;Su'arez-Orozco, Suárez-Orozco, & Qin-Hilliard, 2014). There have been attempts in studying the role of technology in tackling this challenge (Tsai, 2006). For example, immigrants have a substantial information need in adapting to the new society and it has been shown that technology can benefit immigrants by supporting their information and practical needs in adjusting to living in a new country (Shoham & Strauss, 2008;Fisher, Durrance, & Hinton, 2004).…”

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“…There has not been any work investigating at what level hyper-local online communities can help immigrants integrate in the host community. Computer technology can assist immigrant families in overcoming barriers posed by loss of social networks, social disconnection, and limited language proficiency (Tsai, 2006). There is some concern that immigrants' use of internet technologies can increase their isolation in their new community.…”

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File systems (FS) are an essential part of operating systems in that they are responsible for storing and organising files and then retrieving those when needed. Because of the high capacity of modern storage devices and the growing number of files stored, the traditional FS model is no longer able to meet modern users' needs in terms of storing and retrieving files. So using metadata emerges as an e cacy solution for the limitations of file systems. In this paper we propose a new model dubbed VennTags to solve the FS problems. We do this by utilising the idea of overlapping the sets as in Venn diagram, and adopting DAG structure (instead of tree) to achieve that we have used tagging capability and exposed a query language at the level of the API. We evaluate the expressive power of VennTags model that shows its ability to resolve the FS limitations compared to other solutions.

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“…2007). Immigrants generally face problems because of obstacles in language and interpersonal relationships (Bhugra 2004, Tsai 2006, Lee 2007). In a new country, immigrants face the loss of old social networks support (Wong et al.…”

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The lived experiences of brokered brides who have attempted suicide in Taiwan

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Huang²,

Chen³

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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These brokered brides suffered from numerous pressures and difficulties in life. Their hopelessness led to suicidal behaviours as a way to get out of trouble. Hence, the need to provide brokered brides with substantial assistance and support in their lives is an issue that cannot be neglected. The results of this study could be used as a reference to provide professionals and the public with a deeper understanding of suicide in this vulnerable group, and provide more appropriate help and care. Relevance to clinical practice. The suffering may be alleviated by giving brokered brides a reliable support system that they so obviously need. Several recommendations have been made, including amendments in terms of policy, society and the services offered by healthcare professionals.

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Use of Computer Technology to Enhance Immigrant Families' Adaptation

Abstract: Study findings warrant further exploration to assess bow new computer technology promotes immigrant families' adaptation and alleviates stress associated with resettlement, including information about their health and health care.

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